SSD and hard drive combo intel SMART Technology

[metsjetsfan]

Can someone explain how the SMART technology works with the SSD and hard drive combo? I read that you only see 1 drive in finder. So does this mean if you get the 256ssd and 750 option you see approx 1tb in finder? How can you manage the data bw the two drives if you wanted to. Ie keep an imovie project on the ssd instead of the HD

 

[jwhazel]

1.) SMART response requires a z68 northbridge which the mini does not have
2.) It requires the bios to be set to RAID, which the mini can't do
3.) It requires the Intel Rapid Storage Technology software which only runs on windows

 

[reputationZed]

Interesting quote on the usefulness of SMART from a recent Tom's hardware

Is SMART Really Smart?

The short answer is no. SMART was designed to catch disk errors early enough so that you can back up your data. But according to Google, more than one-third of all failed drives did not trigger an alert in SMART. This isn't a huge surprise, as many industry insiders have been suspecting this for years. It turns out that SMART is really optimized to catch mechanical failures. Much of a disk is still electronic, though. That's why behavioral and situational problems like power failure go, unnoticed while data integrity issues are caught. If you're relying on SMART to tell you of an impending failure, you need to plan for additional layer of redundancy if you want to ensure the safety of your data.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-reliability-failure-rate,2923-2.html

 

[jwhazel]

Interesting quote on the usefulness of SMART from a recent Tom's hardware


http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-reliability-failure-rate,2923-2.html

Not the same thing. OP is referring to SMART response which caches transfers onto the SSD.

http://download.intel.com/support/m...ntel_smart_response_technology_user_guide.pdf