Can I install Intel Smart Response Technology?

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I have 1 500gb HDD and 64gb SSD in the system. I already installed Ubuntu in my system on the HDD.

Can I have Intel RST (Rapid Storage Technology) without sacrificing my Ubuntu?

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 28 '13 at 23:34

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No. If you want SSD cache-ing you can use bcache as noted in some other questions on site. Intel SRT is a Windows only technology, but bcache is in software not hardware and supposedly provides similar performance gains.

answered Jul 28 '13 at 23:34

RobotHumans

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 12 '20 at 14:37

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Apparently not, I copy from Intel site (first result on Google):

System Requirements

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Operating system: Microsoft Windows 8* or Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit editions)

edited Jun 12 '20 at 14:37

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answered Jul 28 '13 at 21:57

dadexix86

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 02 '14 at 23:50

ISRT is easily confused with IRST!
The Linux kernel currently(3.15) only supports the latter one through its imsm module.

Trying to access fake-Raid-drives formatted in the SRT way gets rejected my mdadm:

mdadm(IMSM): Unsupported attributes: 2000000
mdadm: Unsupported attributes in IMSM metadata.Arrays activation is blocked.

Fedora suggests to drop the metadata of the fake-Raid in order to make the additional device usable within linux.

Can I install Intel Smart Response Technology?

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