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SSD CACHE DRIVE
Intel® Smart Response Technology boosts overall system performance. It uses an installed fast SSD (min 18.6GB available capacity) as a cache for frequently accessed data. Harness the combination of SSD-like performance and response with hard drive capacity, thats 4X faster than a HDD-only system.

Speed Meets Capacity

Want Solid State Drive (SSD)-like storage performance, with Hard Disk Drive (HDD) capacity, at a lower cost than a large SSD?

Combine an Intel Solid-State Drive 311 Series, a HDD, and Intel Smart Response Technology for a a simple way to accelerate storage performance.

Intel Smart Response Technology-enabled by systems utilizing the Intel Z68 Express Chipset with Intel Rapid Storage Technology (Intel RST) version 10.5 and second generation Intel Core processors-seamlessly combines the responsiveness similar to a high-performance SSD with the capacity and low cost of a hard drive. The two technologies appear as a single C:\ driver letter that provides you with the familiar storage identifier. The system automatically learns which files are accessed frequently and copies them from the HDD to the SSD. The next time you access these files, the system loads them from the fast SSD rather than the slower hard drive. When you request infrequently-used files, the system loads them from the hard drive when you need them.

Systems boot fast, applications load fast, and the system feels snappy, like an SSD.