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Create Degraded RAID 1 in Windows 7
Question is simple. Can one create a degraded RAID 1 in Windows 7?
In other words specific to a hypothetical situation, can I have a backup drive with backup data on it, then buy a second backup ...
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Can I go from noraid to raid1 to an existing Windows installation?
I am planning to switch from Ubuntu to Windows 7 for my HTPC and later add an extra 3TB disk.
Can I install Windows 7 on a 3TB disk and later add a disk and upgrade it to 2x3TB software raid1 without ...
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Windows7 Create Striped volume
I'm trying to raid0 a data partition on two disks in Windows7 Pro 64bit.
Both drives are identical, partition scheme is identical, I have converted them to dynamic disks.
But all the raid options in ...
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RAID 5 with SSDs; how many and what class of SSDs to use?
I have a 850 EVO 250gb as win/programs/games disk and I am thinking buying more SSDs to go with RAID 5 in order to gain more speed. I know the pros and cons of RAID 5.
The question is:
5 cheap 120gb ...
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Windows Software RAID: How can I view the Windows RAID parameters (disk signatures, etc.)?
The software RAID array in my Windows 7 x64 box failed. Drive tests report the drive itself as healthy.
Two drives, RAID1 partition and one RAID0 partition. In Disk Manager, the failed drive shows up ...
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How would hardware RAID compare to Windows software RAID?
I recently bought a new PC with a Gigabyte Z97P-D3 motherboard. One of the things it supports that my old machine didn't is RAID so I had planned to transfer my 2x 1TB hard drives from my old machine ...
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Bad mobo or drives?
I have a gigabyte UDR5 with 12GB Ram, and i7 920. The os runs of 2 x 80GB x25 SSDs in raid0 (mobo software raid) and I have 4 x 320GB raid5 for storage (2 year old drives). Running windows 7 Ultimate ...
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Windows Dynamic Disks vs BIOS FakeRAID
I have two 3TB disks in a Windows 7 Dynamic Disk Mirror array (effectively, software RAID1).
Apart from being tied to the O/S (I can't mount the array in Linux, for example) - is there any difference ...
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Is it possible to create striped array (RAID 0) with two parts on two disks (Windows 7)?
I have 2 physical disks. Part of one disk is occupied by Windows 7. I have two not allocated parts on these two disks of equal size. Is it possible to create striped array (RAID 0) with two parts on ...
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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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ICH10R based RAID vs Windows 7 software RAID
It seems that performance wise these solutions are about the same and thats not my main concern anyway, but I need to know how do they compare from the point of data getting corrupted?
What are the ...
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Windows 7 and software RAID 1 for system [closed]
So I have been using Linux software raid for ages, unfortunately now I need to install Windows 7 on a notebook and since the machine has two disks I was wondering how do I setup software Raid in ...
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