By the time I got an Intel Z68 Express chipset platform and the Intel 311 'Larson Creek' 20GB Solid-State Drive (SSD) up and running, Joe Evans already had his article dealing with Intel's Smart Response Technology (SRT) completed. I was going to hurry up and run some benchmarks of Larson Creek to include in his article, but we had two totally different platforms and rather than confuse people I held onto the numbers and tried to think outside the box for an article I could do using this new SSD. Companies absolutely hate when you think outside of the box as PR people always want you to follow the dotted line that makes their products look the best. Every so often we like to go off the beaten path, to see how something works when you don't read the instructions or try something that you aren't told to do. Today, I am going off the beaten path to show you some things about Intel SRT that you might be wondering about, but more than likely haven't seen the answer to.