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HDD painfully slow only on my computer
I have Dell Vostro 3560 that has Intel Rapid that makes a hybrid RAID with an internal SSD to optimize performance. Just to check things I disabled it to test the pure HDD performance without help ...
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How to recover RAID0 lost after a upgrade to Windows 8.1
How can I recover software RAID 0 after formatting my primary OS drive?
I had the same issue as this post :
I was previously running Windows 7 on a machine that had 4 physical drives and 1 SSD for ...
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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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Rebuilding a RAID 1 without data loss, recover from unallocated partition data
Mobo: ASUS P8Z77-M/Pro Gen 3
RAM: 32GB (4 x 8GB)
Power Supply: corsair HX850
HDDs:Configuration before the problem:
1 x 128GB SSD for Windows 7 professional 64-bit
2 x 3TB drives in RAID 1 on the ...
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AMD Raid (RaidXpert) and expanding RAID 1 logical drives
Here's the setup. I've got an old machine with basic RAID 1 arrays.
Basically, 4 physical drives were used to create 2 logical drivers in RAID 1, each filled to the brim. Also, the machine is running ...
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Software or Hardware?
Hi guys i have a Server 2008 R2 thats a supermicro Duel Xeon 1366 box 12gb DDR3, that i use for file storage and WDS and little Vmware Workstation 12 stuff.. The issue am having
its loaded with 2 ...
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Migrating to a bigger hard drive
My PC is a Dell Inspiron T3500, running a Xeon 3530, and 12GB DDR3 RAM.
I am currently running two WD Velociraptor drives, 300GB each, in RAID format, so it appears as one ~600GB hard drive on my PC. ...
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SSD cache, SRT, Raid 0 : speeding up my C drive
I have a Z97 rig and I'm interested in speeding up my disk drives.
This is my current setup:
1) 240GB SSD for main disk
2) 500GB hard drive for User Files
3) 120GB for photo editing (I move files ...
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Dell Studio Slim 540s JBOD RAID
I'm working on a Dell Studio 540s that has dual 750GB drives in what appears to be a JBOD configuration. The computer reports "Missing operating system" at boot. The BIOS appeared to have been wiped/...
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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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Trying to clone raid (striped) To USB Hard Drive
I am trying to clone a raid drive that was striped over to an external USB hard drive.
I have tried Paragon in both clone and image and restore, EaseUS in both clone options, and Acronis. Nothing ...
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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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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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Why Windows 7 will not install when using Marvell MST644R HyperDuo?
I recently wanted to upgrade my desktop by adding a VANTEC (Marvell) UGT-MST644R (2mSATA + 2SATA) Raid card with HyperDuo capability. I also purchased two 240Gb SSD cards that fit directly on the ...
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Recovering NTFS after erroneous mount as Software RAID
I did something very stupid because I did not back up before performing such operations, but I am trying to restore what I can restore.
We had a server which has malfunctioning motherboard. It had ...
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How to Switch from RAID to IDE/SATA without BIOS acces
At the company we have a Laptop HP Elitebook 8770w which has some problems with booting. We had an SSD to boot from and a 2nd HDD. The Windows 7 OS is installed on the SSD. Now we have removed the SSD ...
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4HDDs in RAID 10 One specific disk becomes degraded during every reboot. Is the disk bad? Smartmoontools information included
So this all began about 6 months ago when I swapped in a new motherboard. The RAID had previously been my main drive that I booted into. I upgraded cpus which meant a mobo upgrade, and along with that ...
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How to resize the partition of a RAID 1 logical volume on Windows 7
Six years ago I created a RAID 1 logical volume with AMD RAIDXpert and installed Windows 7. The logical volume hosts two partitions for c: drive and d: drive.
How do I resize the partitions (to make ...
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Windows 10 Couldn't boot, replaced HDD, only recognized in bios using SATA0 or SATA1?
Suffered some sort of failure where my computer wouldn't boot (Windows 10). After trying a few recovery methods unsuccessfully, I figured it was a bad drive, bought a replacement (WD Blue 1TB), but ...
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External HDD is causing second drive to unallocate (disappear)
I am running Windows 7 x64 and have two drives, C and D. D is within a RAID array running under Intel Rapid Storage Technology (IRST). The external HDD in question is a CN Memory Spaceloop 2TB 3.5'' ...
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Win 7 won't recognize 850 Evo single disk with HDDs in RAID1
This has managed to drive me nuts: I used to have 1 SATA HDD as a single drive for OS's and 2 SATA HDDs set-up as RAID1 using the onboard AMD controller for storage, everything was fine. I bought this ...
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recovering a raid 0 after reinstalling windows 7
thanks in advance for your help,
I have made a clean install of windows 7 to my system today to an SSD, along the ssd I have another ssd and 2x 1tb disks in Raid0. Only difference to the former ...
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Multiple HDDs hanging constantly
I have an AMD Windows 7 system which has its OS on an SSD, and until previously had a single 4TB HDD as a data drive. I never had an issue with that drive until I installed a second 4TB drive and put ...
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RAID 0 now showing as "unallocated"
I have a 6TB RAID 0 consisting of 2x3TB WD Red drives.
It's been working fine but recently I went on my PC (which was still turned on and had been for a few weeks) and the whole partition was showing ...
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Mirror new HDD with old (raid 0) HDDs
So after fighting every day with my slow 3TBx2 Raided HDDs I decided to get a new one that's just 4TB (as I don't use more than 2TB currently).
It's a WD Black HDD that looks really promising. There'...
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Recovering 1TB hard drive split into two 500GB drives without formatting
I am using Windows 7 and am trying to recover two working drives.
The hard drive in question was: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822204022
I am pretty sure they were ...
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Add space from 3TB unto 4TB using raid, how?
I would like to expand my 4 TB drive by adding on drive space from my 3 TB drive. I assume this is possible in a raid configuration by resizing the partion on the 3 TB to free space then using ...
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Raid Setup, 2 Hard drives - one shows in explorer
I got a new pc delivered to me and I go to start up the PC using a raid configuration. I then go to are you happy with these settingsand I select yes.
Later on, I then notice that one of the hard ...
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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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Why is BIOS switching from IDE to RAID mode?
Acer Aspire M3203. BIOS will randomly default HDD interface to RAID mode and fail to boot Windows 7, claiming there is no RAID array defined and, subsequently, "no boot device." If I go into BIOS and ...
