https://community.solidigm.com/t5/solid-state-drives-nand/dual-booting-win7-with-accelerated-volumes-is-possible-is-it/m-p/20323#M8436 <P>I couldn't find any white paper or other information about this issue.</P><P>We have workstations that are equipped with normal HDs and cache msata 20GB SSDs. They work as accelerated volume under Intel RST.</P><P></P><P>However, we do dual-boot 2 Win7 installations in separate partitions on the HD. The intention was to disable the acceleration/caching in one of the Win7 installations. As we found out these settings don't seem to be stored in the Win7 installation (probably in the RAID controller).</P><P></P><P>Which means if the acceleration is enabled in one Win7 installation it will also be enabled after booting the second Win7 installation!</P><P></P><P>Surprisingly this seems to work without problems.</P><P></P><P>Is there a danger of data corruption (my hair stands up seeing RAID0 in this context)? </P><P>Is the cached data on the SSD rebuilt every time the other Win7 installation is booted and thus the acceleration effect lost?</P><P>Lastly, is it possible to disable acceleration in one Win7 installation and only have it in the other one?</P><P>I'd be happy to read how the SSD-caching works, which files are stored on the SSD!</P><P></P><P>Thank you very much!</P> Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:50:06 GMT idata 2012-11-16T19:50:06Z https://community.solidigm.com/t5/solid-state-drives-nand/dual-booting-win7-with-accelerated-volumes-is-possible-is-it/m-p/20323#M8436 <P>I couldn't find any white paper or other information about this issue.</P><P>We have workstations that are equipped with normal HDs and cache msata 20GB SSDs. They work as accelerated volume under Intel RST.</P><P></P><P>However, we do dual-boot 2 Win7 installations in separate partitions on the HD. The intention was to disable the acceleration/caching in one of the Win7 installations. As we found out these settings don't seem to be stored in the Win7 installation (probably in the RAID controller).</P><P></P><P>Which means if the acceleration is enabled in one Win7 installation it will also be enabled after booting the second Win7 installation!</P><P></P><P>Surprisingly this seems to work without problems.</P><P></P><P>Is there a danger of data corruption (my hair stands up seeing RAID0 in this context)? </P><P>Is the cached data on the SSD rebuilt every time the other Win7 installation is booted and thus the acceleration effect lost?</P><P>Lastly, is it possible to disable acceleration in one Win7 installation and only have it in the other one?</P><P>I'd be happy to read how the SSD-caching works, which files are stored on the SSD!</P><P></P><P>Thank you very much!</P> Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:50:06 GMT https://community.solidigm.com/t5/solid-state-drives-nand/dual-booting-win7-with-accelerated-volumes-is-possible-is-it/m-p/20323#M8436 idata 2012-11-16T19:50:06Z