NCR RealPOS 40 - System and SSD Requirements; Known Issues

6-2 Chapter 6: Solid State Drive Optimization
System and SSD Requirements
All34nmIntel®X25‐MorX18‐Msolid‐statedrivesrunningfirmwareversion02HAor
latercontainsupportfortheATADATASETMANAGEMENT(trim)command.Current
implementationdoesnotsupportmultipleIntelsolid‐statedrivesconfiguredaspartofa
RAIDset.
WhenusingthelatestMicrosoftWindows*7operatingsyste
mwiththeMicrosoft
AHCIstoragedriver,theOSwillcontainnativesupporttoexecutetheATADataSet
ManagementcommandonanIntelSSDwithoutanyuserinteractionrequired.
ForusersofWindows7usingIntel®MatrixStorageManagerstoragedriver,orother
operatingsystemssuchasMicrosoftWindowsXPorVista*,Intelisofferingthesame
abilityforuser
stoexecutetheATADataSetmanagementcommandontheirIntel
SSDthroughtheuseoftheIntel®SSDOptimizertool.Instructionsforusingthe
Intel®SSDOptimizercanbefoundinthenextsectionaswellastheusermanual
foundwithintheIntel®SSDToolbo
xdownload.
TheIntel
®
SSDToolboxhasthefollowinginstallationrequirements:
 MicrosoftWindows*operatingsystem:WindowsXP,WindowsVista*or
Windows7(32/64bit).
 .NETFramework2.0.
Note: Ifyoursystemdoesnothave.NETinstalled,thetoolwilldirectyoutothe
appropriateplacetoobtainit.
 Atleast10megabytes(MB
)ofavailablespaceontheSSD.
TodeterminewhethertheSSDhasenoughavailablespace,usethefollowing
instructions:
1. DoubleclickMyComputer
2. RightclicktheSSDyouwanttocheck
3. ClickPropertiestodisplaytheamountoffreespace
4. ClickCanceltoclosethewindow
 DiskDefragmenteristu
rnedoff(MicrosoftWindowsVistaorWindows7)ornot
running(MicrosoftWindowsXP).Thisprogram isnotneededforSSDsandcan
reducethelifeofyourSSD.
System Configuration Requirements for the Intel
®
SSD Toolbox
 SystemswithVirtualization:TheIntelSSDToolboxwillnotworkonsystems
runninginavirtualizedenvironmentasitcannotdetecttheSSDs.
 SSDappearsasaSCSIdevice:IftheSSDappearsasaSCSIdevice,theIntelSSD
Toolboxapplicationwillreportanerrorconnectingtothedriveandno
functionalitywithinthetoolwillbeavailable.