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I haven't been able to get RST to work, but I did manage to get express cache to work. This is on a clean windows 8.1 installation.

Thanks.

Is it different from RST? How is your performance and programs start up?

what is you spec?

And I think you should consider your system as a whole and not measure it just by the GPU or CPU.

Hi!

New user here with Lenovo Y580. Recently I've been trying to get intel RST technology to work with no success.

Before I did anything to the laptop I created a restore flash drive to make sure I can restore the system to original if anything goes wrong.

I than formatted my two drives (750GB HDD + 16GB ssd) and installed the OS on the HDD. I made sure in that AHCI mode is on.

After the installation completed I installed RST drivers and no acceleration option available meaning no chaching.

From what I under stand from reading here and from searching the web RAID mode must be enabled.

Does any one have any experience regarding that issue?

Is installing the unlocked bios is my only option for getting RST caching to work?

Many thanks

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Lenovo Y580

Intel Core i7-3630QM

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M

750GB HDD

16GB ssd

2X4GB RAM

WINDOWS 8.1

Hi! great question!

I own a lenovo Y580 which comes with a software called 'Lenovo Energy Management'. among other things it controls battery recharge. It has two options: 1. Maximum battery life which constantly charging it to 100% until its full. 2. Maximum battery health: which charges the battery to ~60% and keeps it there.

On my other laptops I just pull out the battery whenever it is plugged to the power cord.

When I was in the army I used to wrap my laptop with a towel (made sure it wasn't wet) and put it all inside my backpack whenever I came back home . Never happened anything to the pc.

Nowadays I put it inside cheap case made from neoprene or something like that and than put it in my backpack.