Asus S400CA 24GB SSD used or not? How to know

I have SanDisk SSD U100 24GB (24.02 GB) -- drive 1, s/n
123987403169, rev CS.56.02 in my ASUS S400CA notebook. I don't find any way to know whether it is being used as cache or not. In system properties virtual memory, it shows system managed in C drive with 1147mb currently allocated. How to know whether SSD cache is used? if not how to use it?

 

The virtual memory or pagefile.sys file that is used to manage low RAM situations is not related to your SSD being used as a cache or not.

Do you have Intel RST drivers installed? That should give you more information whether the SSD is being used for caching.

In the meantime; can you see the SSD in Computer or Disk Management as a separate drive?

One way to see if the SSD is being used is to measure how fast your system boots - it should be very fast - probably around 15-30 seconds.



Good luck.

 

Thanks.
I dont find any RST drivers installed. I have Intel(R) 7 Series Chipset Family SATA AHCI Controller
only for IDE/ATA ATAPI controllers.
My disks details are
My HDD details are as follows
Model: ATA ST500LT012-9WS14 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags Label
1 1049kB 316MB 315MB fat32 EFI system partition boot SYSTEM
2 316MB 945MB 629MB ntfs Basic data partition hidden, diag Recovery
3 945MB 1079MB 134MB Microsoft reserved partition msftres
4 1079MB 108GB 107GB ntfs Basic data partition Windows
5 108GB 194GB 85.9GB ntfs Basic data partition Data
6 194GB 280GB 85.9GB ntfs Basic data partition Audio
7 280GB 479GB 198GB ntfs Basic data partition PhotosVideos
8 479GB 500GB 21.5GB ntfs Basic data partition hidden, diag Restore
My SSD details are as follows
Model: ATA SanDisk SSD U100 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 24.0GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags Label
2 1049kB 4296MB 4295MB fat32 EFI system partition hidden INTELRST
1 4297MB 24.0GB 19.7GB HFS

I have seen a reply by intel in similar situation as said in
Unable to configure SSD cache on new Lenovo Y500
Unable to configure SSD cache on new Lenovo Y500
In this, it is said
"SSD cache or acceleration does not work under AHCI. If you like to enable this feature the computer requires RAID mode. If your computer model does not support RAID then, SSD cache is not supported."
In BIOS, only AHCI or IDE mode is available. Hence the doubt whether SSD cache is used or not?

Regarding booting, upto login it takes around 15 secs and another 30 secs to full working condition. I had another ACER laptop, where there was no SSD cache. there also it was 18-20 and 35-40 secs only. I think this may be due to windows 8 fast start up using hibetnate-shutdown.