Intel Latitude E6430, Latitude E6430 ATG, Latitude E6430s, Latitude E6530, Smart Response Setup Manual

Intel Responsiveness

Technologies

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Contents

1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

What do these features do? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

What is Intel Smart Response Technology?

What is Intel Rapid Start Technology?

What is Intel Smart Connect Technology? . . . . . . 6

. . . . . 5

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2 System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Intel Smart Response Technology . . . . . . . . . . 7

Intel Rapid Start Technology

Intel Smart Connect Technology . . . . . . . . . . . 8

. . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

3 Smart Response Configuration . . . . . . . . 11

How to set up or re-configure a system for
use with Smart Response?

How to use Smart Response?

. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

. . . . . . . . . . . 15

4 Rapid Start System Configuration . . . . . . 19

How to set up or re-configure a system for
use with Rapid Start?

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Contents 3

5 Smart Connect Configuration . . . . . . . . 35

How to set up or re-configure a system for

use with Smart Connect? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

A Appendix A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

B Appendix B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

4 Contents

3

Introduction

What do these features do?

Smart Response, Rapid Start, and Smart Connect are layered technologies
that can work together to provide improved system responsiveness. Together
they comprise Intel's Responsiveness Technologies.

The purpose of this document is to help end-users understand and configure
these responsiveness technologies that are supported by the Intel chipset on
several Dell desktop and notebook computers.

Please note that some features described below are not available on all Dell
systems, as they are dependent on the Intel chipset, Dell system BIOS
enablement and specific hardware requirements. Please consult your product
documentation to determine if your product supports these technologies.

What is Intel Smart Response Technology?

Smart Response is a feature that uses both a traditional hard disk drive
(HDD) and a solid state drive (SSD) of greater than 32 GB together. It
dynamically monitors file, data, and application use, and stores frequently
used content on a special partition on the SSD device for faster access. It
provides SSD-like read/write performance for the files used most frequently,
while providing lower overall storage cost by sorting and storing less
frequently accessed content on the larger-sized traditional HDD.

What is Intel Rapid Start Technology?

Rapid Start is a feature that provides power savings similar to Windows
hibernate state, while improving resume time vs. hibernate by ~2x. Rapid
Start may be combined with Smart Response on some systems to enhance
overall system performance while also reducing power consumption when not
in use.

Introduction 5

What is Intel Smart Connect Technology?

Smart Connect is a feature that periodically wakes the system from the
Windows sleep state to refresh email or social networking applications. When
the system is equipped with specific wireless devices, it can detect the
presence of known networks while asleep, waking only when connectivity is
available (this feature is called Net Detect).

When properly equipped with specific wireless devices, Smart Connect can
also provide quick internet connection readiness by keeping wireless devices
active in a low-power mode during sleep (this feature is called Quick
Connect). Smart Connect may be combined with Rapid Start on some
systems to help reduce power consumption while still keeping email and
other application data current.

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System Requirements

Intel Smart Response Technology

•Storage:

• The system must be equipped with an SSD (either SATA or
mSATA/minicard form factors) storage device with at least 18.6 GB of
available storage space and a traditional HDD. (Also see "Appendix A"
on page 39)

4

• The system must have BIOS set to
BIOS menus, this mode may be called

Start mode

NOTE: ATA and AHCI modes are not supported.

• The system must have Intel Rapid Storage driver and application
installed in the OS.

• Processor:

• System must have an Intel Core processor installed.

Intel Rapid Start Technology

•Storage:

• The system must be equipped with an SSD storage device (either
SATA or mSATA / minicard form factors), with at least 8 GB of
available storage space. (also see "Appendix A" on page 39)

• Rapid Start may be combined with Smart Response; the technologies
can share the same SSD space.

).

RAID

on mode (in some system

Smart Response mode

or

Rapid

• The system cannot have multiple disks configured in a RAID array, as
striped or mirrored disk arrays will hide the Rapid Start partition from
the BIOS.

System Requirements 7

• The system may be configured to support both Rapid Start and
Smart Response on the same SSD device (configuration details
provided later in the document).

• Windows cannot be running in legacy ATA mode (as selected from the
storage/SATA BIOS settings menu). The system must be in AHCI,
RAID, Smart Response, or Rapid Start mode.

•Processor:

• System must have an Intel Core processor installed.

•Memory:

• System should have 8 GB of memory or less. The factory
configuration only supports 8 GB or less, and if a partition is created
manually to support larger configurations, the expected resume time
performance benefits may not be realized.

• Software/Drivers:

• Systems must have the Intel Rapid Start Technology driver installed.

• Other Limitations:

• Encryption:

• Systems configured with a Dell Data Protection Encryption accelerator card do

not support Rapid Start.

• Some software encryption vendor guidelines may recommend using Windows

hibernate in place of Windows sleep. If sleep is disabled, Rapid Start state will be
disabled automatically.

• Dell does not support self-encrypting HDD's or SSD's with Rapid Start.

•Passwords:

• Some Dell systems do not support Rapid Start when HDD (ATA security) or

system BIOS passwords are enabled.

Intel Smart Connect Technology

• Storage (also see "Appendix A" on page 39):

• Smart Connect software can only be ordered from the Dell factory on
systems ordered with an SSD.

• Smart Connect technology may work on some systems, with HDD or
hybrid HDD drives, but it is not recommended.

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• Processor:

• System must have an Intel Core processor installed.

•Network devices:

• Net Detect (see "Smart Connect Configuration" on page 35 for
details) is supported on these Intel wireless LAN cards in some
systems.

– Ultimate-N 6300

– Advanced-N 6250 + WiMAX

– Advanced-N 6230

– Advanced-N 6235

– Advanced-N 6205

– Wireless-N 6150 + WiMAX

– Wireless-N 1030

– Wireless-N 2230

– Wireless-N 1000

– Wireless-N 2200

• Quick Connect (see "Smart Connect Configuration" on page 35 for
details) is supported by these Dell Wireless WAN cards in some
systems:

• Dell Wireless 5560, 5802, 5804 (pending availability after launch).

•Software/Drivers:

• Systems must have the Intel Smart Connect Technology driver and
application package installed.

• Application support:

• Many social media and email applications will work with
Smart Connect by design. Smart Connect support was validated by
Intel on several applications, including:

• Microsoft Outlook

• Microsoft Live Mail

•Sobees

System Requirements 9

• VPN: Support for restoring VPN credentials across Smart Connect
sleep cycles was validated by Intel with these VPN solutions:

• Cisco AnyConnect

•Check Point VPN

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5

Smart Response Configuration

How to set up or re-configure a system for use with Smart Response?

This section is a summary of steps, the detailed description of which can be
found on the Intel support website:

http://www.Intel.com/support/chipsets/sb/CS-

032826.htm

There is also an Intel setup guide available here:

http://download.Intel.com/support/chipsets/sb/Int
el_smart_response_technology_user_guide.pdf

Pre-Installation Notes

• If the system is in AHCI or ATA mode, Smart Response cannot be
configured. The procedure for changing SATA modes after Windows
installation is generally outside the scope of this document, however,
"Appendix B" on page 40 provides suggested methods that may help on
some systems.

• This section is designed to walk you through troubleshooting steps in order
to identify solutions to commonly experienced issues with USB-connected
external drives.

• The Intel Rapid Storage Technology driver and application package is
required for systems that support Smart Response. If the system supports
it, the driver and application self-extracting executable file will be available
for download from http://support.dell.com/

• Smart Response and Rapid Start can co-exist on the same SSD device.

•

On some systems (at time of publication), installation order of
Smart Response and Rapid Start is significant.

Smart Response Configuration 11

CAUTION: Rapid Start configuration must take place AFTER Smart Response

configuration. Smart Response configuration may erase the SSD device, including
Rapid Start partition information.

1

BIOS

— Restart the system, and press F2, when the Dell splash screen

appears, to enter the BIOS setup menu.

a

Navigate to the "SATA Operation" mode menu, usually found under
"System Configuration" or "Advanced Settings."

b

Confirm that the system BIOS is set to RAID on mode (in some
system BIOS menus, this mode may be called

Rapid Start mode

NOTE: If the system is in AHCI or ATA mode, Smart Response cannot be configured

until the mode is changed. The procedure for changing SATA modes after Windows
installation is generally outside the scope of this document, however, "Appendix B" on
page 40provides suggested methods that may help on some systems.

2

Launch the Intel Rapid Storage Manager application from Windows

Start

>

All programs > Intel > Rapid Storage Manager

).

Smart Response mode

, or by double-

clicking the tray icon, which looks like this:

or

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