Adaptec MaxIQ RAID SSD Cache Setup Guide Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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475 words · ~2 min read
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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