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I unbox this product quite a while ago this is the Adaptec SSD cache so it's their max IQ product basically it goes with any supported Adaptec raid cart so in this case I have a 54 45 from Adaptec how many times I said Adaptec already in this video I've set up the SSD as one of the four drives that's connected to this controller so you can see I've got three other drives those are all Hitachi 1 terabyte 7200 rpm drives they are configured in raid 5 and I just wanted to do a quick video showing how to set up the max IQ cache once you've got it connected to the controller so the first thing you might need to do is update the firmware on your card which I did have to do you installed the latest Adaptec storage manager software and then all you have to do is go into direct attack storage K PC in this case controller 1 and then you can see here that on connector 0 we have an SSD and three SATA hard drives so it already knows that there's an SSD connected we have one logical device so that is the Hitachi raid 5 you can tell from the little v indicated here and you can see some more information about this here in this screen so we've got status power segments device yeah everything that we need to know and then up here this little button right here says cache and it has a little picture of an SSD so we click on that it brings up a menu where all we have to do is go to device 0 click SSD and then click apply Oh hold on fetch right well we'll leave that at default for now so we click apply and now it has configured this 32 gig Adaptec SSD in this case it's an X 25 e from Intel as a cache for my raid 5 configuration now some Adaptec cards actually support using third-party SSDs such as some of aussies enterprise level drives but this particular card only supports the max IQ kit so that was it now we're gonna later on today hopefully maybe tomorrow do some benchmarks comparing before and after - and don't forget to check out the video that I've done on the topic of using SSD caches because it's very very interesting I actually compared quite a few different solutions in the market but this was not one of them so I'm really looking forward to seeing the performance numbers that we can generate by adding even it's just a small 32 gig cache to this particular array