Hello,
Following a guide from the internet I tried to use my ssd as a cache to my 3tb hdd. (I used it as os
drive for the last year and I thought I'd have a go as a cache).
My 3tb is set up 100gb free from a Windows that used to be, and the rest a data partition (2.6tb)
What I did:
1.Secure Erased my ssd
2. Switched from ahci to raid
3. Installed win7 with no issues in the free 100 GB that was free on my HDD
When win setup rebooted, it said that windows needs to check my data partition (the 2.6 one) but then it gave an error. Windows booted. I decided to check the partition again. The check went OK but got stuck at the end after it finished SDS or something like that. Eventually I force closed the check, and noticed that 200gb of data seem to be missing (explorer reports 700gb free instead of what I used to have, 500gb).
I sort of panicked and shut it down (safely) and disconnected the HDD, reverted to ahci and reinstalled win on ssd, plunged in the hdd and booted, did a scan (which currently seems stuck at "xxxxxxxx USN bytes processed ". But my HDD free space went back down to " normal" 500gb free.
my question is what did I do wrong and is there an official guide to using Intel rapid storage for ssd caching?
Thanks
Following a guide from the internet I tried to use my ssd as a cache to my 3tb hdd. (I used it as os
drive for the last year and I thought I'd have a go as a cache).
My 3tb is set up 100gb free from a Windows that used to be, and the rest a data partition (2.6tb)
What I did:
1.Secure Erased my ssd
2. Switched from ahci to raid
3. Installed win7 with no issues in the free 100 GB that was free on my HDD
When win setup rebooted, it said that windows needs to check my data partition (the 2.6 one) but then it gave an error. Windows booted. I decided to check the partition again. The check went OK but got stuck at the end after it finished SDS or something like that. Eventually I force closed the check, and noticed that 200gb of data seem to be missing (explorer reports 700gb free instead of what I used to have, 500gb).
I sort of panicked and shut it down (safely) and disconnected the HDD, reverted to ahci and reinstalled win on ssd, plunged in the hdd and booted, did a scan (which currently seems stuck at "xxxxxxxx USN bytes processed ". But my HDD free space went back down to " normal" 500gb free.
my question is what did I do wrong and is there an official guide to using Intel rapid storage for ssd caching?
Thanks
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