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klingonscum
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As the subject line says, I've got a Z68 system with a 60GB SSD caching an HDD using the motherboard's Intel RST caching capability.
The problem is recently I replaced my 750GB HDD with a 1.5TB drive. Then the 1.5TB drive started making some unhappy noises and reporting some errors, so I got a new 2TB drive. Each time, of course, I turned off the cache drive within Windows (the Intel RST system tray applet), uninstalled the old drive, re-installed the new one, and re-enabled caching.
The problem is now my machine is booting about as slow as if it was booting from the HDD directly. The applet isn't reporting anything wrong and the SSD is enabled for caching and everything, it's just slow to boot/load apps within Windows 7. And this isn't an old SSD either; I did all this within the last 12 months and got the SSD new for this purpose. This machine doesn't get a lot of heavy use, either - maybe an hour a day or so on average, if that.
I'm wondering if the SSD needs to be "refreshed" somehow and what that would involve; cursory googling doesn't appear to show me anything so I figured I'd ask the experts on this forum to see if they have any ideas. In retrospect, I wish I'd just used the 60GB drive as a boot drive, but it'd be a major undertaking at this point to try to go through that switchover (I'm probably using about 300GB on the HDD; everything on one partition, and don't have the cheese lying around to buy a 500GB SSD to go the easy route).
The problem is recently I replaced my 750GB HDD with a 1.5TB drive. Then the 1.5TB drive started making some unhappy noises and reporting some errors, so I got a new 2TB drive. Each time, of course, I turned off the cache drive within Windows (the Intel RST system tray applet), uninstalled the old drive, re-installed the new one, and re-enabled caching.
The problem is now my machine is booting about as slow as if it was booting from the HDD directly. The applet isn't reporting anything wrong and the SSD is enabled for caching and everything, it's just slow to boot/load apps within Windows 7. And this isn't an old SSD either; I did all this within the last 12 months and got the SSD new for this purpose. This machine doesn't get a lot of heavy use, either - maybe an hour a day or so on average, if that.
I'm wondering if the SSD needs to be "refreshed" somehow and what that would involve; cursory googling doesn't appear to show me anything so I figured I'd ask the experts on this forum to see if they have any ideas. In retrospect, I wish I'd just used the 60GB drive as a boot drive, but it'd be a major undertaking at this point to try to go through that switchover (I'm probably using about 300GB on the HDD; everything on one partition, and don't have the cheese lying around to buy a 500GB SSD to go the easy route).