24GB flash Hard Drive Acceleration Cache

Getting ready to by an Envy TouchSmart 15t-j100 quad edition with the standard hard drive. Is the acceleration cache a worthy add?? Also, there is a good chance I will pull the hard drive and replace with an SSD drive if i don't like the start up times. Does it make sense to use the Acceleration cache with the SSD??
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The acceleration cache cannot be used with an SSD. The Intel Rapid Storage Technology program will look for regular hard drives and mSSD drives and let you "accelerate" the regular hard drive with the mSSD. The mSSD cache drive will tremendously improve boot time, and provides some upgrade to overall storage performance. I have run full test on this with my Envy 17-j029nr having a 24 gig cache drive and 1 TB 5400 rpm drive, and hardware very similar to the laptop you are considering. With the cache drive enabled boot time goes from about 1:30 to about 25 seconds. The average data transfer speed goes from about 40 MB/s to about 70 MB/s. With a main SSD drive you can expect boot times of about 35 seconds and sustained data transfer speeds of more like 3-500 MB/s. If money is tight and you want to boost the speed on a bang for the buck basis get the mSSD cache drive. It is worthy. If you want to maximize the performance all the way, get an SSD.
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How can you tell that you have the 24GB flash Hard Drive Acceleration Cache

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Yes it does not mount as a lettered drive. It is combined with the main drive in a RAID array. Look in the list of programs and find Intel Rapid Storage Technology and open it up. If you have the 24 gig cache drive it will look something like this:
See the two drives listed in the upper right corner?
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Why can't I use the 16GB DDR3 System Memory (2 Dimm) with 24GB flash Hard Drive Acceleration Cache?

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Hi,
The 24Gb cache drive will store manything and normally it will need at least twice the size (capacity) of RAM. Double 16Gb is 32Gb therefore 24Gb is not big enough.
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MSSD Hard Drive Acceleration Cache vs hybrid drive

I'm thinking of buying an ENVY laptop and noticed there are 2 separate options for SSD. One is an hybrid hard drive and the other is mSSD Hard Drive Acceleration Cache. What is the difference and what are the benefits of each. Also...
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Please see Wikipedia - Hybrid drive for information on both hybrid / caching styles. The mSSD / HDD style is typically based on two seperate drives and Intel Smart Response Technology (which is implemented through a combination of certain Intel chipsets and Intel storage drivers). The hybrid HDD style is typically based a traditional hard drive and NAND flash memory on one chassis and is fully impemented on the drive.
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The 500 GB drive with 16 MB cache is twice as fast and more silent than the 250 GB drive. From what I guess is that higher your storage room, higher the cache would be which means more information stored per unit of time. I could be wrong and I am open to be corrected by anyone with more knowledge.
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HP ENVY initial RAID setup deleted, accidentally wiped hard drive?

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Hi, Ryan:
Everything you read was correct about SSD's and TRIM only being supported for drives in AHCI mode until the advent of the Intel Series 7 Chipset.
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No the problem is not with the hardware...mSSDs are very fast and reliable. The problem is the design. The mSSD slot is supposed to be and is designed to be used only for a hard drive acceleration cache...usually 24 or 32 gigs. It allows the speed of an SSD to leverage the performance of the main regular hard drive. It is close to rocket science. It is technically possible to work around the way HP has set it up with limits in the BIOS and such but it is not really designed for that mSSD slot to be used to hold a storage sized drive to be used as an ordinary mounted volume or the main boot drive. Again, possible, but it takes a degree in computer engineering to accomplish.

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Graphics on notebooks are typically soldered to the motherboard. Notebooks, when it comes to critical components, are typically locked into that configuration. Some components, like the processor, may be possible but it is not an easy task.
This guide by erico, one of the community experts, answers a lot of questions about upgrading the hardware in a notebook. This may be worth reading if upgrading the hardware is something you are interested in.
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If boot speed is something you are looking for, upgrading the HDD as a whole to a standard SSD may be the best option for your needs. However, looking at a new notebook may be the best option if you also want improved hardware such as the graphics card.
This notebook comes stock with a 32GB mSSD cache drive. It looks like the ultrabooks include a cache drive as I looked at four different ones and each had a cache drive included. They didn't list it in the specs of the notebook, but it was listed when I selected the customize option. However, the ultrabooks more than likely won't have the video card you are looking for due to the compact size the ultrabooks are designed for. The Envy line typically has the most options for video cards.
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Can the flash storage hard drives in the brand new 15inch Macbook Pro Retina Display laptops (10.22.13) be upgraded/replaced in the future?

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How many hard drives should i get to get the most out of premiere on my laptop?

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I agree with JFP...above. But if you have a USB3 interface on that MacBook, you can also try using it as I have on my PC laptop
For simplicity on my PC laptop I would just go with a fast USB3 flash drive for the project and media files. I have several PNY Turbo USB3 128GB units and have recently edited a 1-hour long three AVCHD camera shoot (not multicam mode) with perfect ease. That way you do not have power cables from hard drives. I suspect that the new SanDisk Extreme Pro will match those speeds below but at a much higher cost ($140 versus $50). Never believe the manufacturers speed claims here are real achievable results on the PNY.
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I have a 500GB flash hard drive on my macbook pro and it is almost full. When I look at the drive in the finder, though, I see that my personal user folder is taking up 460GB of that, but then when I expand it and add up the components they only add up to 260GB. I can't figure out why. My pictures file is 125GB and my music and desktop are 60GB each, and the rest are pretty small. They don't add up to the 460GB that the overall user folder shows is in there.

If you have 10.7 or above, your Library folder is hidden. That usually takes up quite a bit of space - it contains all your Mail, caches, application files, and so on.
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Western Digital drives seem to get better performance on a MacPro, check out the "Expanding your Mac Pro" forum. There are several Mac specific reviews of drives found there (I was a died in the wool Seagate guy, but then I read the reviews):
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1125
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They just had a price reduction to $895 list. A much larger company than probably any Mac controller company.
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