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Usability of solid state drives after long term storage without without power
So, I was recently hired on to a company that has shipped out several 24/7 always on servers with solid state drives. I understand that SSD longevity has been improved upon, however to my knowledge ...
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RAID 0 or btrfs on two SSDs?
I have two 500 GB SSD's, and I would like to combine the two in some way to have 1 250 GB NTFS partition, and 1 750 GB btrfs or ext4 partition.
As far as I see, I have two options: the Intel Rapid ...
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RAID 0 volatile volume cache mode configuration
I discovered that in IRST there is an option to set a cache mode for my 3 SSD RAID 0 array.
I've read the documentation by Intel and have some questions:
Are there any overall benefits/risks from ...
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Would an array of SSD drives be able to succesfully substitute the system memory?
I watched a few videos trying to answer this.
This video (youtube.com/watch?v=eULFf6F5Ri8) shows a bunch of guys stacking 24 SSD's reaching a peak of around 2GBps r/w. That's under the limit of the ...
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Do SSDs have to have AHCI to maximize performance?
After my last post concerning my motherboard's RAID, I'm considering purchasing an additional dedicated RAID controller, but I have a few concerns about what to buy, because I'm facing yet another ...
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RAID Configuration 'seen' through
I have a RAID0 (striped) configuration with the following:
64GB SSD
128GB SSD
640GB HDD
I'm turning my PC into a hackintosh, and the installer loaded properly, BUT
The installer saw the individual ...
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How to recover a 12TB RAID 10 array that's showing up as two uninitialized 6TB drives in Windows 7?
I have an ASUS Maximus VI Formula motherboard which was giving me trouble with it's USB 3.0 hub (Intel) so as part of the trouble shooting process I upgraded the BIOS to the latest. Big mistake, ...
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Reliability of 4 SSD in RAID 0 -vs.-SSD Boot+5440 HDD - in laptop
Question: What are the benefits of SSD RAID 0 over SSD boot with 5400 HDD?
Goal: Decision between internal storage options
Needs:
Ability to seamlessly use multiple graphics and coding programs ...
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How can I restore RAID 0 on my DELL laptop?
I have been formating my dell laptop for quite a while, I bought it back in 2012, with one year warranty, it ended last august, but I think since the moment I formatted it to windows 8.1 I probably ...
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Dell Precision T3500 Intel Rapid Storange Technology shows no Acceleration option?
I have a Dell Precision T3500 with a 2TB HDD with my OS installed and a brand new 128GB SSD which is not formatted. The SATA mode is set to RAID in BIOS and the latest version of the Intel Rapid ...
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How to enable Samsung EVO 840 mSATA SSD Self Encrypting Drive with Intel RST RAID 0
I have an MSI GT60-2OD (Haswell MB, UEFI enabled w/o CSM) with 3 Samsung EVO 840 mSATA SSD drives in RAID 0 mode (Intel RST AHCI RAID Controller Miniport aka Intel(R) Mobile Express Chipset SATA RAID ...
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Hybrid Raid-1 HDD + SSD -- Write Intent Bitmap
I am currently running a laptop with 1 HDD and 1SSD.
I currently am using mdadm to put some partitions in a raid 1 configuration with --perfer-write set on the HDD. I have this working correctly ...
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Two SATA 2TB drives in RAID-1 configuration; only one 6.0gb/s port open
Here's the scenario:
I am building a computer that will act as a network storage device for local networked users, and a source code repository and backup device for remote users. The machine will ...
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Custom Build - SSD for OS and Raid 1/0 HDDs for Everything Else? [closed]
In a few months, I will be building a custom desktop computer. The purposes of this computer will be playing Minecraft, recording HD video, editing HD video (and ofc compressing/rendering it), and ...
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Would an Intel raid configuration benefit from Intel Smart Response feature?
My hard drive took a dive so I looking at getting some new drives.
I was thinking of getting 3 WD Black Edition 1TB disks.
My motherboard has the Intel Matrix Storage feature and I was going to hook ...
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How to determine cause for failing RAID arrays
I have to investigate a recent increase in failing RAID-1 (Mirror) arrays we're encountering in our installed PC park (10K+ PC's).
The problem is twofold: one part of being a pilot phase we started ...
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Faster SSD performance as cache drive or regular boot drive?
I have the choice of setting up a system:
with two SSD Drives in RAID 1 mode as my boot drive for Windows 7 64-bit, with the Program Files and User folders moved to a second regular hard drive, also ...
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Use the speed of an SSD + two HDDs in RAID 1
Is it possible to gain a speed benefit of an SSD if you create a software RAID with a big SSD + two small HDDs?
At the moment I have a system with only two 320GB HDDs. And I thought about inserting a ...
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Raid0 assemble disk again?
Our server recently suffered a disk failure, so our hosting provider put a new Disk in with CentOS so we can login and see if we can recover the data.
We had 2 x 120 GB SSD drives in software RAID0 ...
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Is it currently stable to use, and boot to, a btrfs RAID 0 on SSDs?
As of the current (3.10+) Linux kernels, is it supported to make a btrfs RAID 0 out of SSDs the root mount and boot to it? This comprises several issues:
Does the RAID 0 with SSDs support TRIM/...
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HDD + SSD Raid 0, does it make sense?
On my laptop, I have a 22GB SSD and a 500GB HDD. I just reinstalled Windows and because of some problems, I reset everything in Intel RST. In the end I ended up using a 44GB Raid 0 partition, but now ...
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Replace two hard drives for one new hard drive do I have to change the RAID setting?
I have an old very usable Sony VAIO AR 590E.
It was getting a bit sluggish so I reinstalled the OS (vista) and I replaced both both hard drives with a single solid-state hard drive (Samsung). Have ...
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SATA-II SSD Raid 0 slow on Windows-7
I have 2 SSDs and made a RAID 0 with the on-board controller of my mainboard.
But i only get 130 megabyte/second average read/write speed which seems to be pretty slow for me even for SATA 2 which ...
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SSD RAID Controller, 6Gbps bandwidth limit for the whole controller or per SSD [closed]
We are looking to buy raid controllers and 4 SSD's in raid10 on it, will the raid controller be a bottleneck of this setup?
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RAID0 SSD performance degredation
I have a computer built to acquire uncompressed 2048 x 2048 16 bit images at 100 frames per second in real time, writing to disk. A RAID0 of SSDs is thus the only option.
For the past month or so, ...
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RAID, SSD or alternative software for playing back raw 1080p60 video?
I am a researcher working on video compression. As part of my work I need to play back raw (i.e. not compressed) video at the correct frame rate for participants to view as part of a compression ...
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Best configuration for 3 256 GB Samsung 840 Pro SSD [closed]
I have 3 256 GB Samsung 840 Pro SSD drives, and was curious what would be the best configuration to put them in for windows 8? I was thinking of using one for the boot drive, one for data, and one for ...
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SSD cache to minimise disk uptime
I am planning to build a small server for personal use, utilising a relatively large RAID-5/-6 (or RAID-Z/-Z2) array as main storage.
The vast majority of workloads I envision for this would have ...
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How can i extend my system drive?
I have Windows 7 installed on a basic volume on my 128GB SSD. I have now bought a 256GB SSD and want to add this space to my original 128GB SSD.
How would i do this?
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Raid 0 (OS) + SSD Cache, what are performances like compared to pure SSD (OS)
I'm considering a RAID 0 setup with an SSD cache drive. Will I see a noticeable difference in speed with the SSD cache drive, will this even work?
No I will not install the OS on the SSD. I'd prefer ...
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Interesting Windows install issue with RAID and an SSD
I have been trying for days to solve this issue, so any help would be appreciated. Here is the issue:
I have a Gigabyte GA-890FXA-UD5 motherboard. Here is a link to the manual and pages starting at ...
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RAID-0 bottlenecking when reading and writing simultaneously?
I have 4 Samsung 840 Pro SSDs running in hardware RAID on an Intel RS2BL080 LSI RAID card. My read and write times are incredible:
$ dd bs=1M count=10000 if=/dev/zero of=test.img conv=fdatasync
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TRIM support on Intel RS2BL080 Hardware RAID card?
I've got an Intel RS2BL080 hardware RAID card and I'd like to know if it supports TRIM on my RAID-0 array of SSDs. I've heard that the Intel 7 series integrated RAID solutions that ship with ...
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Terrible write speeds with Z77 Intel 510 RAID 0
I just bought an Asus P8Z77-V Pro board today, connected my old Intel 510's in RAID 0 mode on the Intel controller and installed Windows 7. I'm gettings read speeds of around 900mb/s, but the writes ...
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Is it possible to migrate a boot RAID volume from an older motherboard to a newer one? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Raid 0 - what happens with the data when hdds plugged into another motherboard
Background info
I am going to upgrade my current setup from an X58 to an X79 and I have 2 RAID ...
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Does TRIM avoid the performance impact of mdadm RAID 1 on SSD?
It has already been mentioned in other questions that Red Hat recommends against using mdadm RAID 1 on SSD.
Red Hat also warns that software RAID levels 1, 4, 5, and 6 are not recommended for use ...
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Windows 8 Killed my SSDs
I have a computer running 2 256GB Crucial M4's (CT256M4SSD2) in a RAID 0 (striped) array on an ASUS P9X79 Pro using Intel's (built-in) RAID system.
I recently installed Windows 8 Pro as UEFI on this ...
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Solid State Drive Occasionally Freezes For A Minute While OS Is "Beach Balling"
Almost a month ago I bought Intel 330 128GB solid state drive, migrated my data with Intel branded limited-feature Acronis from old HDD to new SSD, optimized with Intel Toolbox and started using it. ...
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Intel DX79SI won't work with RAID-1
I built a brand new system, that has an Intel DX79SI mainboard, 16 GB DDR3 (four fours), nvidia geforce gtx 470 (from older system), coolermaster 700w psu from older system, intel core i7 3820, latest ...
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How can I create a single RAID volume with a single HDD?
I have an i7 3770k, Asus P8Z77-Pro and two drives. An SSD 120Gb and a regular HDD 500Gb.
I'm interesting in using the SSD with the Intel's Smart Response technology.
As stated in the requirements:
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How to use a hard drive after it has been part of a RAID0 array?
I have two Crucial M4 128GB SSDs. They were in a RAID0 array, but the array no longer exists and I need to check each of them to see which one is bad, if either (could have been the controller, who ...
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Changing from RAID to AHCI and Windows 7 will not boot
I had a RAID0 array that for all intents and purposes went to hell. I put a new SSD (same on-board Intel controller) and installed a new copy of Windows on it and all the drivers (Intel Rapid Storage, ...
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HDD & SSD Linux: Hard resetting link
my current storage setup consists of two traditional HDD's and two SSD's in my Linux box, each two on their own RAID 1 array which is encrypted via luks. I have a story of sorts, rather than a ...
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Should I use Windows write cache if I have RAID controller + BBU?
I have ARECA ARC-1231ML 2 GB Cache and RAID 0 with 4 A-data 30 GB SSD drives and sometimes Windows is checking filesystem during boot.
I think the problem is that my system is using RAM as write ...
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One SSD + two HDD in RAID 1: SSD performance hit?
My SSD based system is starting to feel slow and sluggish, but it used to be lightning fast. I tried to cleanup as much as I could, removed programs from startup, etc.
However, one big change I did ...
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Can I clone my Raid 0 HDDs to my SSD drive which i will eventually use to replace the HDDs by connecting the SSD via esata to sata cable?
I have already purchased Acronis True Image and 2-120gb OCZ Vertex 3 drives and when i plug it in via esata it doesn't get recognized. I have a Sager np8760 i7 and would love to be able to do this. ...
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Improve performance of RAID SSDs (without TRIM) with periodic disk defrag? Lack of TRIM even important?
I'm in no way experienced with setting up RAIDs or using SSDs, but I'm considering purchasing a SSD RAID setup (potentially RAID 10, but maybe RAID 0) and I've been doing a lot of research. A lot of ...
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Feasibility of putting two Intel 520s in RAID0 on a 3 year old board
I have a 3+ year old i7 rig (using an old ASUS P6T Deluxe) which currently has two SSD's in RAID 0 using the on-board Intel Matrix Storage RAID Controller (The predecessor to Intel RST?) - The SSD's ...
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RAID striping on a desktop machine
I currently have a 120Gib SSD which is pretty fast for things like game loading times and video editing.
However, I was wondering about getting another identical drive and hooking it up with a ...
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Raid-0 (2xSSD) + Raid-1 (1xHDD) possible?
Is it possible to have the following setup?
2 x SSD (2x128gb) in RAID-0 (for performance)
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1 x HDD (1x500gb but using 128gb) in RAID-1 (for redudancy)
If so, does the HDD mirror give a decrease ...
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