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Any way to get what is effectively a 4 drive mirror in Windows 7?
I know this doesn't serve that much practical purpose, but I would like to somehow set up a small 400mb partition that is mirrored across 4 drives. I partition using the Disk Management Console, and ...
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How can I control hard drive usage for some programs?
Is it possible to limit hard drive IO per process?
I recently upgraded from a Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 2.8GHz to an i7 2600K @ 4.5GHz. It's a pretty big step from 2 slow cores to 4 fast cores.
Also, I've ...
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Healthy unknown partition created in WS2012 R2 storage pools - How to recover?
I'm seting up a file server from a WS 2012 R2 VM hosted in hyper-v. I have a raid 1 array for the file server storage that is implemented by an Adaptec 5805 raid card. This disk was set to offline in ...
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Intel RAID controller failing to diagnose faulty disk
On my system (running Windows 7 x64) I have an Asus Z87 Deluxe motherboard, with a built-in Intel RAID controller; my config includes a Kingston 240GB SSD disk for the OS and two Western Digital 4TB ...
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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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See disk disk information Windows Server 2012
This should not be this difficult, but I can not figure out how to see what/how many drives are being used for the server, and how they are configured (RAID ?).
I THINK I have 7 physical drives (all ...
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Can I safely use the Windows 7 Disk Management tool to format my hardware RAID 1 setup?
I have spent the last 3 days banging my head against a wall trying to get a RAID 1 setup working on my Windows machine. I have finally gotten the hardware RAID drivers setup (loaded them during an OS ...
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If I remove one HDD from a RAID0-with-striping, is it impossible to read data from remaining HDD?
I have a laptop with a virtual hard drive composed of two 500GB Hitachi HDDs set up using Intel Rapid Data Storage RAID0 striped configuration.
The Windows installation became corrupted and I haven't ...
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Can Windows 7 make good (high performance) use of RAID 1 between a SSD and a HDD?
Recently my hard drive died, and I lost all my files and I am really sad.
Right now I am making a software 1 raid between my 2250MBps/1850MBps Pcie 3 8x SSD, and my 1TB 170MBps/170MBps hard drive.
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Newly installed hard drive not visible
Motherboard was too old to install a sata 2 harddrive So i bought a raid controller ("http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816132008")
In windows 7 , the device manager detects ...
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Change SATA mode to AHCI before reinstalling Windows on new drive - possible lose of data on non raid drive?
Currently I've got 5 HDD connected to my PC: 1 is the OS drive, 2 are connected into raid0 volume0, 2 are connected into raid0 volume1 (the volume numbers might be wrong, I'm writing this from memory, ...
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How to copy RAID 0 array with failing drive to single drive
I'm using the Intel SATA RAID Controller built into my motherboard.
I'm using it in RAID 0 mode with two 1TB Samsung HD103SJ drives.
One of the Samsung drives is reporting an error.
On the same ...
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How can I add a second hard drive to mirror the first one in RAID?
I have a HP ProLiant Gen8 MicroServer with a Hardware RAID Controller. The model is Dynamic Smart Array B120i/ZM.
I currently have a single hard drive mounted. I would like to add a second identical ...
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Access RAID hard disk drive externally on Windows 7 or 8
We are using Iomega StorCenter ix2 for making our backup. Unfortunately last week it stopped responding and accessing. Earlier I was able to ping the device and only able open it through browser, but ...
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Windows 7, can I mirror directories when I got one HHD? (like RAID) [duplicate]
In Windows 7, lets say I have a "works" directory which containts my work, personal etc information. I want to use a program which always checks the disk and make mirror(s) of this directory. ...
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