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    UnRaid a mSATA Cache Drive

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by FrozenSolid, Oct 1, 2013.

  1. FrozenSolid

    FrozenSolid Notebook Evangelist

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    I have an mSATA drive caching my D Drive if I wanted to uncache the drive so the D Drive operates by itself how would I do that?
     
    FrozenSolid, Oct 1, 2013
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    depends on laptop but in general, you gotta make sure you are in BIOS mode (i.e. in UEFI machines, this means enabling compatibility mode). Then when you boot, spam Ctrl+i until you enter the IRST configuration screen. This will let you release the SSD from being a cache.
     
    Marksman30k, Oct 2, 2013
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    Thanks. I had a look at that option but got a warning message that all data would be destroyed. I can understand that if it is a RAID0 and I thought with the cache I could do it and not lose the data but I also wanted to make sure first.
     
    FrozenSolid, Oct 2, 2013
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    If it's on your Alienware, you go to the Intel RST control panel and click on the accelerate tab. Then click on disable acceleration. That will stop the cache drive from RAID operations for caching.
     
    radji, Oct 3, 2013
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