SSD owners - Disable RapidBoot Shield

Hi All,

Just wanted to mention this in case people who have installed a SSD as their primary drive after purchasing their system didn't know about it.

If you buy a new Lenovo it comes with EE3 and part of this is a utility called "Lenovo RapidBoot Shield" which you find in control panel. It's a good utility if you are using a conventional HDD, however If you are using a SSD I highly recommend you disable it by simply un-ticking a box after you open it.

I found my system booted a noticeable amount quicker after I disabled this feature.

More info about this feature and HDD accelerator:

1) RapidBoot: HDD Accelerator – this creates a compressed cache of files needed at boot. The cache is read into system memory very early during boot and the PC continues to boot out of that cache instead of off the slower rotational drive. This essentially conveys an SSD-like boot experience on HDD systems. It’s an innovative idea that is made possible by shifting the burden from the I/O subsystem to the CPU and memory subsystem (which are traditionally underutilized during boot).

2) RapidBoot: BootShield – this preserves a good boot time as the PC ages, alleviating the impact of additional software installations. This is actually an iterative improvement over last year’s RapidBoot (v1.0) solution. The new version more carefully monitors system resources and dynamically allows for user-initiated tasks to receive immediate priority.

RapidBoot: HDD Accelerator is a very good utility for people using conventional HDDs and can be downloaded here: RapidBoot HA for Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit) - Notebooks and Desktops - it should reduce your boot times a noticeable amount on a conventional HDD.

 

Good advice, Flickster! The Lenovo forum staff suggests this as well. While RapidBoot/Enhanced Experience software is helpful with hard drives, it is unnecessary and should be uninstalled with SSDs.

 

I imagine disabling RapidBoot Shield won't have any impact on a hard drive that's being used in the caddy, if you're running the OS on an ssd...?

 

The logic behind RapidBoot/Shield has nothing to do with user files.

 

Yes it only applies to the OS. As mentioned by Kaso, it has nothing to do with user files.

Most people using a SSD would be have to OS installed on it. I don't see the point of having a SSD and not installing the OS on it; if you have the space. One of the major benefit of having a SSD is the greatly improved OS performance one can gain by installing their OS on one.

 

Thanks, guys, that's what I thought. Always safer to ask first though