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Maximum Bandwidth of PCI-E 2.0 x8 6Gbps RAID Card
I have a quick question regarding what I'm seeing as an obstacle in getting the proper performance out of a RAID card...
I'm interested in setting up two RAID arrays (a RAID0 of 2 disks, and a RAID1 ...
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How do I reset a disk to non-RAID?
I had a couple SATA hard disks in a RAID 1 array. I reset them to non-RAID in the Intel raid manager, and removed one drive.
Despite the raid controller saying it's not a RAID disk, and even ...
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Is it possible to install two SSD M2 drives using only 1 SATA port?
I have a six years old Toshiba laptop computer. It has traditional mechanical hard drive with SATA3 interface. It has no M2 SSD interface.
I am wondering if it is possible to install 2 SSD M2 using ...
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Big Linux software RAID using USB disks?
A while back, a friend of mine who's a filmmaker, asked if I had any ideas on how to do fairly big storage without a huge initial cost. Performance is not a big issue, but reasonable redundancy is.
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RAID-capable 3.5" SATA Drives
I recently purchased a pair of 1TB Western Digital WD1002FBYS RE3 drives for use in an external RAID enclosure. I have found that they tend to drop out of the array after a while. Thinking it was the ...
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OK to use Windows while a RAID array is building?
I've just put together a nice clean, fresh install of Windows 7 x64, and my two primary harddisks are building a software RAID1 array in the background while I type this.
But I want to move over ...
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Help with my RAID config
I've got a 250GB SATA2 hard drive. Yesterday I boughy myself a pair of 1TB HDDs which I intend to put into a RAID-1.
If I enable the RAID functionality in the BIOS, I can setup the two drives in a ...
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Adding RAID 0 disks to a system previously setup as AHCI
I'm running Windows 10 Pro on an AMD 5900X system with X570 motherboard. Windows was installed on an NVMe SSD (Samsung 980 Pro) and then two other SATA drives for data. Motherboard set to AHCI from ...
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Do all drives need to be SAS or can one RAID array be SATA?
We have a Dell PowerEdge T330 server. This machine has 8 hard drive bays which support either SAS or SATA drives. Currently, they're all SATA. We're looking to upgrade one of the RAID arrays to SAS ...
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Is mixing software RAID disks across SATA and eSATA going to have any issues?
I have two eSATA drives running successfully in a software RAID on CentOS. I would like to make this a three disk mirror RAID by adding the third drive from the internal SATA drive. Are there any ...
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AMD RAID controller sees drives & RAID 1; Windows & RAIDXpert don't
I've got two SSDs I'm trying to work in RAID 1 on a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5.
Here is the weird combination of all the different variables with a fairly ideal testing scenario (plenty of spare parts)......
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4 SSDs RAID 0 integreted vs dedicated controller
I've been thinking about setting up 4 SSD RAID 0 to gain performance in my home PC, and I ran into this review of PCI-E based SSD.
If I use PERC H310 (8 lane PCI-E 2.0 RAID controller, which means ...
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How to install several hard-drives to Tyan S7025 motherboard
First of all, the disclaimer: I do not know much about computers.
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In February 2010 I purchased a workstation with a Tyan S7025 motherboard. This motherboard has 6 SATA ports (SATA0 to SATA5) ...
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SATA Raid-0 Mixing SATA-II + SATA-III: Change jumper?
I have 2 SATA hard disks
They are 2 TB each.
Both are WDC Greens
Respective models of *EARS *EARX
EARX is SATA-III While the other is not.
While the raid does function as is, would there be any - ...
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Can I plug a single hard drive into the "SATA RAID1" socket?
My (6 year old) motherboard has 4 PATA socket, 2 SATA socket, and one socket labelled "SATA RAID1". Since I (sadly) have 4 PATA devices (including dvd-r), 2 SATA hard drives, and have just bought ...
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