What to Do With mSATA Disk Cache?
My system was just purchased in late June:
HP ENVY Phoenix 810-445qe Desktop (32 GB DDR - 4 DIMMs; i7-4790 CPU)
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
HDD 3 TB with mSATA disk cache 15 GB
Portable HDD 1 TB USB drive
System Drive Information:
Drive0:
........EFI System Partition (100 MB)
........NTFS Primary Partitition (2779.01 GB) ("OS" C:)
........NTFS Partition (15.28 GB) ("HP_RECOVERY" D:)
Drive1:
........NTFS Primary Partition (14.79 GB) ("DATADRIVE1" E:)
Drive2:
........NTFS Primary Partition (931.48 GB) ("My Book" G:)
I was puzzled during the backups about what to do with the mSATA disk cache. I wasn't sure that even trying to read this device might mess it up. So I came to the forum to see if I could find any information about how this might affect backups.
I found one post (#51295) from a person saying that s/he was unable to restore because of this. This is scary because I have already done one image backup set, and am right now in the process of doing a cloud backup, in which I unchecked the cache. (Should I cancel this?) One of the senior Acronis forum advisors responded that disk caching should be turned off prior to doing a backup. Is this true? I have no idea how to do this, and how much this would affect other things.
There is a knowledge base article (#43073) about this in the post, but when I click on it, it requests a username and password. (Neither my email nor DisplayName, in combination with my Password, works to log into it, and I don't see an option for registering.)
Is disk caching something in the BIOS? Or is it controlled through something in the Control Panel?
Why isn't the Acronis product able to recognize that there is a disk cache and make recommendations? Would it just let you make unusable backups forever and not tell you?! That is scary!
Please advise me on what to do.