Comments on: Corsair Accelerator Series 30GB Cache SSD Review – A Second Wind For Your System

By: RRÂ²

RRÂ² — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 07:14:00 +0000

In reply to anon.

I would like to mention also that partitioning a hard drive while it may prevent fragmentation it also will slow down the overall performance by increasing the average seek rate. Using the right software you can place your files that you use the least often to the inner tracks. It is estimated that people use 20% of their files 80% of the time. Partitions are great for storing back up images or similar files but overall are going to be unwanted if you access that partition on a daily basis.

It’s a similar concept to windows “superprefetch” and the caching that occurs with these accelerators.

It is also worth mentioning that you can create a ramdisk from installed memory that will be faster than any other possible option. It is recommended to have 6+GB but if you want to run a game and have the fastest possible speeds I recommend looking into the software that creates a virtual disk out of extra ram and loading it within that. Of course data loss can be expected if any sudden power outages occur.

By: Les@TheSSDReview

Les@TheSSDReview — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 22:13:00 +0000

In reply to anon. At present, this caching software ONLY caches the boot drive of the system.

By: anon

anon — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:50:00 +0000

I’ve got a stupid question about this test and Dataplex. When you mention “primary drive” or “single drive”, you’re speaking about logical and/or physical drives (hard drives and/or partitions). If I have 1 single HDD but 2 partitions on it (C: and D:), I can only cache one of these. Not both. And it must be the boot one. Is that correct?
What if I have my system on C: and my games dir on D:? (I think I can guess the answer to this one).
Thanks in advance to anybody who takes the time to answer to this one.

By: Mugglewig

Mugglewig — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 19:07:00 +0000

I bought a 30Gb Corsair Accelerator a few weeks ago and changed the SATA to ACHI as recommended and installed Dataplex etc. At first all was ok untill one day the PC would not boot. I treid all ways to fix it but in the end rebuilt it from an image I created before installing Dataplex. The problem now is that the Dataplex software will not allow me to use the SSD. It says ‘not recognised’ but it is recognised by the PC. There is obvious a block on using it twice and that is unfair to anyone who has to rebuild their system. Therefore I would not recommend using it at this time.

By: Deepak Sharma

Deepak Sharma — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 05:31:00 +0000

In reply to GoldenGuy.

No problem, and yes that is very unusual.

The only answer I can think of is, perhaps the system considers the hybrid set-up as a hard-drive set-up (since the SSD isn’t present in disk management), and still uses the normal healthy functions meant for a hard-drive (defragmentation, for example), which could be leading to drive/cache degradation.

I can’t really say as I don’t know how Dataplex is built from the ground up, but just theorizing.

The good thing is that the new version is released (1.1.3.7):

https://www.corsair.com/accelerator-software/

https://www.nvelo.com/dataplex-download/corsair/ReleaseNotes_v1.1.3.7.txt

My favourite updates:
– Dataplex Collect Logs – System information collection utility
– DR – Dataplex Recovery utility (bootable USB)
– Resolved: Incompatibility issue with Acronis.

Give it a shot. Hopefully it fixes your issue. I will update as well. Remember to uninstall the previous version first.

Good luck!