what is HDD express cache?

[ahaider7]

I have seen this term (HDD express cache) in the new Edge 430 features list here

http://www.lenovo.com/products/us/laptop/thinkpad/thinkpad-edge/e430/

What does this mean

[AlexKlein · Accepted solution]

Hi,

See the following video clip - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZFU4cDx_5A

ExpressCache is technology created by Condusiv Technologies (formerly Diskeeper Corporation) that allows your computer to bootup 3X faster.

You can read further details about it here - http://www.condusiv.com/partners/oem/technologies/expresscache

Hope this helps!

-Alex

[Cezariusz]

Is it possible to install Express Cache software on any other Lenovo notebook, like T520 with mSATA SSD?

[AlexKlein]

Hi,

I would definitely recommend contacting Lenovo support via http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/feedback/contactsupport.page to obtain the most accurate information regarding this.

-Alex

[condusiv]

Our ExpressCache technology absolutely improves boot-time - but I'd like to point out that it offers many additional benefits as well - such as improvement application performance.

ExpressCache is software that leverages the speed of a small SSD as a caching device, coupled with a computer's existing HHD to enable the performance of a pure SSD system at the fraction of the cost.

Condusiv Technologies

[cjmbuffalo]

I down;oaded the express cache to activate on my e430. When I run Disk mgmt it shows two partions one primary at 6.91 and the other hibernation at 8.0. Is th cahe software working properly, I cannot tell?

[DAF]

Follow these steps

1) Uninstall ExpressCache

2) In Disk Management, delete both partitions in the mSATA and then delete the Volume.

3) Re-install ExpressCache and reboot.

You can get more details here:

http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=HT074404

I recently installed a 32GB mSATA in my E420 and am very pleased with the results!

[sensei22]

Is it ok if I install this on my Lenovo y580?

[John_Neo]

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sensei22 wrote:

Is it ok if I install this on my Lenovo y580?

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I did so 28 days ago and it has worked quite well.

I ordered a y580 with only the mechanical 750 GB drive.

Monthers later, I put in a 30 GB Intel mSATA* and installed a copy of Express Cache I had downloaded from Lenovo.

Works great. My boot times are cut somewhere between 25 and 50% depending on how I test.

GIMP loads in 10 seconds where it used to take 20.

* PN for the drive was SSDMCEAC030B301 

[tourproto]

Hello, I have ExpressCache on my X240 and I am also seeing very high nonpaged pool memory consumption by the excsd.sys driver. Is this normal?