Intel Smart Response Technology on Z68 Chipset Detailed

**Joenn** · 25-04-2011, 00:30

Intel SSD Caching Feature for Z68 Chipset Explored

System Requirements:
Z68 chipset
Intel Core processor
BIOS with the RST Smart Storage caching enabled
BIOS with SATA mode set to RAID enabled
BIOS that is PCI 3.0 and PMM (POST Memory Management) compliant to allow the OROM to handle dirty shutdowns of Accelerated disks/volumes
PMM must be able to allocate a minimum of 130MB of temporary, nonaligned, extended memory to the Legacy OROM
Intel RST 10.5 version release or later
“Cache SSD” must have 18.6GB minimum capacity. The max. cache size is 64GB so any capacity over 64GB will be used for user data

Only one ”Cache SSD” is allowed per computer system.

Feature Limitations:

A total of only one pass-through disk (RAID Ready system) or RAID volume can be 'Accelerated’ per computer system
Accelerated Volume criteria:
<ul> Accelerated RAID volumes are limited to 31.5TB or less
RAID levels 0, 1, 5, and 10 (No RRT volumes allowed to be accelerated)
All array member disks must be HDDs (No arrays with SSD member disks allowed to be accelerated)
</ul> No Acceleration of a RAID volume that is one of the volumes of a Matrix array (multiple volumes on a single array)
The SSD to be used as the “Cache SSD” must be attached to an internal SATA port of the computer