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Setting Up New Machine With Intel Smart Response Technology and Rapid Start Technology. Okay I have found another issue that I hope I can help everyone else with should they have the same issue. If you just want the solution and want to skip the story click here. VIDEO SOONAhhh A New Laptop. At work we got in these beautiful new Dell XPS 1. Laptops, Dell has finally started to make some nice machines when they came out with the XPS line- up. We have had a lot of people in house comment that they thought it was a Mac Book Pro or Mack Book Air. ![]() These new XPS 1. 4 laptops come with a new technology built on board called “Intel Responsiveness Technology” or IRT for short. The point of this technology is to make your system faster by using a small independent m. SATA Solid State Drive or a slice of a larger SATA SSD. There are 3 different technologies that apply here: Intel Smart Response Technology (ISRT) – Smart Response is a feature that uses both a traditional hard disk drive (HDD) and a solid state drive (SSD) of greater than 3. GB together. It dynamically monitors file, data, and application use, and stores frequently used content on a special partition on the SSD device for faster access. It provides SSD- like read/write performance for the files used most frequently, while providing lower overall storage cost by sorting and storing less frequently accessed content on the larger- sized traditional HDD. ![]() ![]() Intel Rapid Start Technology(IRST)– Rapid Start is a feature that provides power savings similar to Windows hibernate state, while improving resume time vs. Rapid Start may be combined with Smart Response on some systems to enhance overall system performance while also reducing power consumption when not in use. Intel Smart Connect Technology (ISCT) – Smart Connect is a feature that periodically wakes the system from the Windows sleep state to refresh email or social networking applications. When the system is equipped with specific wireless devices, it can detect the presence of known networks while asleep, waking only when connectivity is available (this feature is called Net Detect). When properly equipped with specific wireless devices, Smart Connect can also provide quick internet connection readiness by keeping wireless devices active in a low- power mode during sleep (this feature is called Quick Connect). Smart Connect may be combined with Rapid Start on some systems to help reduce power consumption while still keeping email and other application data current. Nice reference table of what’s possible depending on your drive: Disk Type. I have had some really bad luck here at work with my XPS14 Laptops. I thought that IRST was the issue so i built a brand new Windows 8 machine with a SSD and removed. Hello. my humble understanding is expresscache accomplish speed-up a hdd. the configuration addresses use of one hdd and one ssd. a ssd is faster than a caching. NTFS-3G is a stable, full-featured, read-write NTFS driver for Linux, Android, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenSolaris, QNX, Haiku, and other operating systems. Smart Connect. Rapid Start. Smart Response. HDD only. Not supported. Not supported. Not supported. HDD + SSDNot supported. Supported. Supported. HDD + m. SATANot supported. Supported. Supported. SSD only. Supported. Supported. Not supported (Note: SSD performance achieved without Smart Response)m. SATA only. Supported. Supported. Not supported (Note: SSD performance achieved without Smart Response)Hybrid Drive. Not supported. Not supported. Not supported (Note: Hybrid Drive is similar in performance to Smart Response)Now this all sounds great right? It’s like a Hybrid drive and it will speed up my system! You are correct this is exactly what it does…. I say this because there seems to be a lot of issues and confusion getting this technology to work. If you need to reinstall your OS, or you need to replace the SSD that holds the special partition for this to work, or if you need to replace the hard drive that is being accelerated it seems to break everything. For me this has resulted in blue screens of death and just random crashes. It seems that once ISRT is setup it does not like it when you change anything to do with the configuration. I found this out the hard way…The Problem. When we received these XPS 1. Dell, their factory image was just a single C Drive with a recovery partition. If you have read my other posts I like to separate User data and OS data by moving the Users folder to the D drive this simplifies backups for us. The problem with the Dell image is that there is no D drive and it did not come with media to re- install Windows. The XPS 1. 4 only comes with software that allows you to create a rescue flash drive that is an exact copy of the current image. To be honest using the Dell stock images are really good. There is not much bloat ware you just need to removed a few piece of software. I decided to just modify the Dell image and work with what I had. The XPS I received came with a 5. GB HDD, to get the desired space for D I needed to re- sized the C drive down to 7. GB and than partition the remaining space for the D drive. This was a simple process using Windows Disk Manager. After I rebooted and logged into my desktop Intel Rapid Start Technology program threw up an error. Your system does not appear to have Intel Rapid Start Technology enabled. I knew from my limited knowledge of Rapid Start that it must be enable in BIOS so rebooted the machine to look and I did confirm that the option for Rapid Start Technology was greyed out and there was no way to enable it. Very strange all I did was resize my OS drive. Maybe the software had issues after resizing the partition? I tried to re- install the Intel Rapid Start software but got then error This computer does not meet the minimum requirements for installing the software. Well the rabbit hole just keeps getting deeper. Most people would just quit at this point and restore to a previous image. For me this was just another challenge. With that very informative error I had to look up on the internet and do a bit of reading to figure out why I got this error. I found out that Rapid Start is expecting a very particular partition with a certain ID. For some reason this partition was not being seen by the BIOS so that is why the option was greyed out. I also could not re- install the software because the setting in BIOS was disable. What it sounded like was all I needed to to do is re- create this partition and then I could enable it in BIOS again and install the software. Throw Another Wrench in the Cogs. This is where I really started to run into issues, most of the Intel documentation that I read only talked about Rapid Start but not in conjunction with Smart Response, I did read that it was possible (I also knew it was because my laptop came with both working) but could not find a document the explained how to setup both. No matter what I did to setup this Rapid Start partition I could not get it to work so I figure that maybe I should start with Smart Response. Back to the internet to learn about Smart Response. I found out that I had software installed called “Intel Rapid Storage Manager”. The software showed me information about my SSD and how it was configured to support Smart Response. I could see that there was a 2. GB and a 8. GB partition on the SSD. It also showed that the acceleration of the disk was broken. I tried to disable acceleration and enable acceleration but got the error. An error occurred and the selected disk or volume could not be accelerated. Please restart your computer, and then try the operation again. I rebooted my computer and then ran the tool again, when I looked this tool had created a 1. GB partition on the SSD and it was all setup other then the acceleration needed to be enable on the HDD. So I selected my 5. GB drive and said accelerate only to get a different error. An unknown error occurred while an operation was in progress. The operation could not be completed. I kept going in circles trying one thing then trying another. Seeing if different BIOS settings would change anything. I just kept getting the same errors. At this point I even tried to use the Dell USB image to bring the system back to a factory image but the problem still existed. I even called Dell to ask about this issues and got the response “This is a factory only setup, you must return it and we will ship you a new one” That really scared me to think every time I had an issues with the Rapid Start that I would need to return it to Dell. So it really looked like I would need to return the computer or fix the issue. A Spark in the Dark. After some more digging on the internet I did find a post that mentioned that re- sizing your OS partition would fix this problem. There were many posts under suggestion saying “thank you it worked!” I was very hopeful, I opened Disk Manager and shrunk my C drive down by 1 GB but and tried again…. |
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