https://community.solidigm.com/t5/solid-state-drives-nand/unable-to-see-quot-accelerate-quot-button-in-rapid-storage-tech/m-p/21030#M9143 <P>Hi, I have an Ideapad Y500 I just purchased, which has a 1TB mechanical drive and a 16GB mSATA SSD drive. I cleaned the partitions right when I got the machine with plans of putting Windows 7 on it (it came with Win 8).</P><P></P><P>I do this, install all the drivers, and then install the latest Intel Rapid Storage Technology util, and when I open it the GUI shows no accelerate button. I do see both the SSD and the regular drive listed on the right hand side. I read several other posts that talk about setting the drive to be a RAID setup, but my BIOS has no such config (just AHCI). I also see no available BIOS updates posted anywhere for this laptop.</P><P></P><P>I noted the exact same thing happens when I tried installing within Windows 8. With both Win7 and Win8 I tried the OS install both with the SSD installed during the OS install, and also tried removing the SSD during the OS install and reinstalling after I install the Intel Rapid Storage Technology util.</P><P></P><P>Any ideas why I may not be able to see the accelerate button?</P><P></P><P>Thanks in advance for any advice...</P><P></P><P>Steve</P> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:51:39 GMT idata 2013-01-10T22:51:39Z https://community.solidigm.com/t5/solid-state-drives-nand/unable-to-see-quot-accelerate-quot-button-in-rapid-storage-tech/m-p/21030#M9143 <P>Hi, I have an Ideapad Y500 I just purchased, which has a 1TB mechanical drive and a 16GB mSATA SSD drive. I cleaned the partitions right when I got the machine with plans of putting Windows 7 on it (it came with Win 8).</P><P></P><P>I do this, install all the drivers, and then install the latest Intel Rapid Storage Technology util, and when I open it the GUI shows no accelerate button. I do see both the SSD and the regular drive listed on the right hand side. I read several other posts that talk about setting the drive to be a RAID setup, but my BIOS has no such config (just AHCI). I also see no available BIOS updates posted anywhere for this laptop.</P><P></P><P>I noted the exact same thing happens when I tried installing within Windows 8. With both Win7 and Win8 I tried the OS install both with the SSD installed during the OS install, and also tried removing the SSD during the OS install and reinstalling after I install the Intel Rapid Storage Technology util.</P><P></P><P>Any ideas why I may not be able to see the accelerate button?</P><P></P><P>Thanks in advance for any advice...</P><P></P><P>Steve</P> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:51:39 GMT https://community.solidigm.com/t5/solid-state-drives-nand/unable-to-see-quot-accelerate-quot-button-in-rapid-storage-tech/m-p/21030#M9143 idata 2013-01-10T22:51:39Z