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When disconnect the cached SSD from system (cinfigured in storeMI 2.0), does the software format the SSD?

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2 minutes ago, Xiaotian said:

I know when we disconnect the cached SSD from the system, the data on the HDD is not going to be impacted... But how about the SSD? because when I removed the drive (well disconnect it not physically removed from system) and reconnected them I realized that the useage on the drive is back on 0%. 

Im sure the data is still there, but what I assume is happening is the caching software deleted its index's to where is what. The OS doesn't see the data as the caching software handles that, and even if it did I doubt windows would know what to do with it correctly anyways. So, the data didn't magically disappear, but like when you hit "delete" on a file, the OS just marks that data as no longer needed and will allow you to write over that sector. This data no longer is "known to be used by anything" so it is showing up as all unused sectors.

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I know when we disconnect the cached SSD from the system, the data on the HDD is not going to be impacted... But how about the SSD? because when I removed the drive (well disconnect it not physically removed from system) and reconnected them I realized that the useage on the drive is back on 0%. 

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2 minutes ago, Xiaotian said:

I know when we disconnect the cached SSD from the system, the data on the HDD is not going to be impacted... But how about the SSD? because when I removed the drive (well disconnect it not physically removed from system) and reconnected them I realized that the useage on the drive is back on 0%. 

Im sure the data is still there, but what I assume is happening is the caching software deleted its index's to where is what. The OS doesn't see the data as the caching software handles that, and even if it did I doubt windows would know what to do with it correctly anyways. So, the data didn't magically disappear, but like when you hit "delete" on a file, the OS just marks that data as no longer needed and will allow you to write over that sector. This data no longer is "known to be used by anything" so it is showing up as all unused sectors.

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On 1/7/2021 at 1:45 AM, LIGISTX said:

Im sure the data is still there, but what I assume is happening is the caching software deleted its index's to where is what. The OS doesn't see the data as the caching software handles that, and even if it did I doubt windows would know what to do with it correctly anyways. So, the data didn't magically disappear, but like when you hit "delete" on a file, the OS just marks that data as no longer needed and will allow you to write over that sector. This data no longer is "known to be used by anything" so it is showing up as all unused sectors.

Gotu lol I was just curious since for some reason I kept getting disk corrupted messages from steam and the only way to fix that easily for me was to disconnect the cache drive and re-connect it through storeMI software (very wield). 

Thanks for letting me know. I must have gotten confused between low-level formatting and traditional formatting.

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