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System Acceleration optional, Rapid Storage Technology.

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System Acceleration (optional) Intel® Rapid Storage Technology use a SSD as a cache. Which can store frequently used data without having to use a slow virtual disk or depend on RAM. The SSD cache with the advantages of high-speed read/write and non-volatile memory to accelerate the system performance. Important Check your SSD manufacturer's website, upgrade firmware in order to support Intel® Rapid Storage Technology. Intel® Rapid Storage Technology can only work with RAID mode. Even though there is only one hard drive, you must set the SATA Mode to RAID in BIOS. The OS must be installed in the RAID ready disk in order to use the SSD caching. Follow these steps to enable system acceleration. If Windows has been installed in RAID mode, skip to the step 5. 1. Reboot and enter the BIOS steup. 2. Set the SATA Mode to RAID in BIOS. 3. Install Windows operating system. 4. Insert the MSI Driver DVD into the DVD-ROM drive. 5. Install Intel RAID driver Appendix B 6. Powered off. 7. Connect the SSD. 8. Reboot the system to Windows. Intel RAID B-12

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Appendix B
B-12
Intel RAID
System Acceleration (optional)
Intel
®
Rapid Storage Technology use a SSD as a cache. Which can store frequently
used data without having to use a slow virtual disk or depend on RAM. The SSD
cache
with the advantages of high-speed read/write and non-volatile memory to
accelerate the system performance.
Important
Check your SSD manufacturer's website, upgrade firmware in order to support Intel
®
Rapid Storage Technology.
Intel
®
Rapid Storage Technology can only work with RAID mode. Even though there is
only one hard drive, you must set the SATA Mode to RAID in BIOS. The OS must be
installed in the RAID ready disk in order to use the SSD caching.
Follow these steps to enable system acceleration. If Windows has been installed in
RAID mode, skip to the step 5.
1.
Reboot and enter the BIOS steup.
2.
Set the SATA Mode to RAID in BIOS.
3.
Install Windows operating system.
4.
Insert the MSI Driver DVD into the DVD-ROM drive.
5. Install Intel
RAID driver
6.
Powered off.
7. Connect the SSD.
8.
Reboot the system to Windows.