Acer Aspire S3-951 SSD Caching

[Bradley Bauer]

My acer aspire s3-951 comes with a 20gb SSD installed on the motherboard.
I received this laptop used with ubuntu on it. I decided to put Win7 on it instead.

After doing a clean install and formatting Disk 0 (The harddrive... I left the SSD untouched) I proceeded to install the software offered on the acer aspire s3 driver download page.

Long story short. I cannot get SSD caching to initiate. I have intel RST installed and have the Intel Chipset software installation utility installed as well. My bios is has SATA set to AHCI mode and under the iRST tab in bios I have enabled iRST.

When I go into the IRST application in windows there is no accelerate button as shown in this picture.
http/en.community.dell.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/3534/0755.irst1.JPG

This laptop is intended to use the 20gb of SSD for caching and its really bugging me that it is not. I was hoping I could get some help here thanks.

 

[Bradley Bauer]

seems an appropriate time for a bump.

Just for clarification. I have successfully got Intel rapid start technology working as intended. This function uses the integrated ssd to store information from memory to put the computer into a deep sleep and still provide killer wake up times.

What I am trying to figure out is how to go about setting u Intel rapid storage technology which would give my main HDD a boost in performance by caching regularly used files from the system onto it which would be persistent through reboots.

 

[Anthony Chai]

seems an appropriate time for a bump.

Just for clarification. I have successfully got Intel rapid start technology working as intended. This function uses the integrated ssd to store information from memory to put the computer into a deep sleep and still provide killer wake up times.

What I am trying to figure out is how to go about setting u Intel rapid storage technology which would give my main HDD a boost in performance by caching regularly used files from the system onto it which would be persistent through reboots.

I have a different encounter. I have been able to enable the Intel Smart Response technology (which is the 20GB iSSD as Caching, based on article http/www.intel.com/support/chipsets/sb/CS-032826.htm) on the Acer Aspire S3-391. But I have not found success to enable the Intel Rapid Start technology (based on article http/download.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/rapid_start_technology_user_guide.pdf) since there is no such option in BIOS.

 

[hwrevd1]

Well a little late then never but...
Same thing happened to me after wiping the partitions, I could not get *SRT to work, until I came across this link, and discovered it actually uses expresscache and not Intel's *SRT. I was able to repartition my s3-391 SSD back to 2 partitions (1 for Intel **RST and 1 for ExpressCache)

Note: if you still have the Acer Recovery CD/USB ,and use them, the drivers and files for both are actually there and just need reconfiguring of the SSD to use
1. partition the SDD using diskpart and configure a 4GB partition and set id to 84
2. leave the rest of the SSD space and run the following in CMD (Admin rights) "ECCmd -partition" (don't need to specify a disk or size, it auto detected my sdd and used remaining space

http/community.acer.com/t5/Ultra-Thin/GUIDE-Install-ExpressCache-for-SSD-Caching/td-p/64381

* Intel Smart Response Technology (caching)
** Intel Rapid StartTechnology (hibernation)