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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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