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I unboxed this product quite a while ago this is the adaptech uh SSD cache so

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it's their Max IQ product basically it

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goes with uh any supported adaptech raid card so in this case I have a

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5445 from adaptech how many times have I

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said adaptech already in this video I've set up the SSD as one of the four drives

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that's connected to this controller so you can see I've got three other drives

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those are all Hitachi 1 TB 7200 RPM

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drives they are configured in raid 5 and I just wanted to do a quick video

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showing how to set up the max IQ cache

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once you've got it connected to the controller so the first thing you might need to do is update the firmware on

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your card which I did have to do you installed the latest adaptech storage

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manager software and then all you have to do is go into direct attack storage

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KPC in this case uh controller one and

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then you can see here that on connector zero we have an SSD and three SATA hard

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driv so it already knows that there's an SSD connected we have one logical device

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so that is the Hitachi raid 5 you can

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tell from the little five indicated here and we can see some more information

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about this here in this screen so we've got status power segments device yeah

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everything that we need to know and then up here this little button right here

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says cache and it has a little picture of an SSD so we click on that it brings

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up a menu where all we have to do is go

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to device zero click

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SSD and then click apply oh hold on

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vetch rate well we'll leave that at default for now so we click apply and

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now it has configured this 32 gig

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adaptech SSD in this case it's an x25 E

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from Intel as a cache for my RAID 5

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configuration now some adap tech cards actually support using thirdparty ssds

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uh such as some of ocz's Enterprise level drives uh but this particular card

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only supports the max IQ kit so that was

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it now we're going to later on today hopefully maybe tomorrow do some

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benchmarks comparing before and after adding an SSD cache and don't forget to

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check out the video that I've done on the topic of using SSD caches because

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it's very very interesting I actually compared quite a few different solutions

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in the market but this was not one of them so I'm really looking forward to

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seeing the performance numbers that we can generate by adding even it's a a

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small 32 gig cache to this particular

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array