How do I get the ssd cache drive working on the Y580?

I did a clean install of Windows 7 (it originally had 8) on my Lenovo Ideapad Y580. It's running fine, but the ssd is just seen as another drive and not really used to cache/speed up things. I was wondering how do I make this work? Like I said, I formatted everything, so the only partitions I have are my main hard drive (750gb) and the ssd (16gb). Thanks.

 

Hello,

you need first to delete volume of your ssd in disk management then install this ExpressCache Software for Windows 7 64bit, Windows 8 64bit - ThinkCentre, ThinkPad

then restart your computer, you can check the caching stats in cmd, the command is "eccmd -info" without the quotes.

 

Thanks. I took a screenshot of command prompt after I did what you said. Is this what it should look like? And will I notice a difference in performance now?

 

As you use your computer, the cache will fill up gradually, until you install core system updates, then the cache will flush itself. Also the cache might flush itself if you do a hard shutdown.