Asrock Fatal1ty Z77 Professional-M, Fatal1ty Z77 Professional, Fatal1ty Z87 Killer, Z97 Anniversary, Fatal1ty Z87 Professional Intel Smart Response Installation Guide

I ntel Sm art Response Technology I nstallation Guide

This motherboard supports Intel Smart Response Technology. You can find the UI setup
instruction and the step by step instructions below.

UI setup instruction:

1 Complete initial system setup, including instal lin g the OS to a RAID mode system, then install

all required drivers, including RST storage driver version 10.5 or later.
2 You MUST have both the HDD you intend to accelerate AND the SSD in system at this point!
3 Boot system to desktop, open RST GUI from either Sta rt Menu or by double-c licking RST

Storage icon in Icon tray, lower right-hand corner of the s creen .
4 Once open, click o n the “Enable Acceleration” button on the GUI pa nel.
5 Whe n pop-up menu appears, cho se which SSD you wish to use as the Cache device, which

HDD you wish to Accelerate, if you want to use the full SSD as Cache device or on ly 20GB,

and if you want to use Enhanced or Maximized Mode.
6 For all performance testing, chose “Maximi zed” mode.
7 After clicking OK button, SRT will enable a utomatically, and the RST GUI will refresh to show

the newly accelerated system configuration.

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* Before you use RST function, you just need to set the UEFI option “SATA Mode” to [ RAID

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will update the new version RST d river in the near future. For the new version RST

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Mode]. I t is not necessary to bui ld RAID 0 or RAID 1 in RAID ROM.

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Core™ Processors in the LG A1155 or LGA1150 package support RST.

Enabling I ntel Smart Response Technology Setup through RST GUI :

1.

Open RST GUI, either double-click on
tray icon or open through Start menu.

Click on “Enable Acceleration” button on
f ront panel.

2.
Sele ct options for your pers onal

preferences:
20GB or Full Disk Capacity for Cache

Volume.

Select which disk/volume you want to
Accelerate.

Enhanced or Maximized Mode.
Click “OK” button.

3.

Your GUI window will now change to
look like this.

The “System View” area (Green) now
shows the SSD broken up as a Cache
Vo lume a nd the spare capacity volume
(Yellow) if applicable.

Also, the Accelerated dis k now h as a n
“Accelerated” label and icon (Blue).

Reboot the system and cache setup is
complete.