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Does software RAID 1 in Windows 7 improve read speeds?
Does software RAID 1 (mirroring) in Windows 7 improve read speeds?
I'd like to set up RAID 1 to help protect my important documents (yes, yes, I know it's not a backup), but performance is also ...
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Can I setup a software RAID in Windows 7 using Virtual Hard Disks?
Well, the title of my question pretty much sums it up, but let me elaborate. The main idea of what I want to do is as follows:
1) I have two separate hard disks, with nearly equal performance. I use ...
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What's the difference between RAID 1 software mirroring and Fake RAID?
I've just ordered two new hard drives for my main desktop and a copy of Windows 7 Professional 64-bit. I'd like to do a clean install of Windows 7 onto the new drives (leaving my old Windows XP ...
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Will mirroring with an SSD improve read performance?
If you use Windows 7 to mirror a volume across an SSD drive and a mechanical hard drive, will the read performance be similar to a single SSD drive?
I.e. is Windows smart enough to read from them ...
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optimal SATA SSD configuration in new PC
I'm sold on SATA SSDs for my next PC but since their prices grow un-proportionally to their size, I'm wondering what would be the best configuration for them (for OS and Programs) would be:
2 SSDs ...
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Parity errors after verify with Intel RST
I have Intel RST RAID 1 running on a Windows 7 machine. I have it set to do a verify and repair every week. I frequently notice parity errors, some weeks over 100 for a 1 TB RAID 1 array. I've ...
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Three-way mirrored RAID in Windows 7?
I sometimes find bit-rot in some of my files. This is rare, but does happen. It annoys me that this is a) undetected for long periods of time and b) not fixable (except from backups), even with the ...
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Sharing an Intel RST between Windows and Linux
I have an Intel z68 motherboard, which makes use of Intel Rapid Storage Technology (RST) -- Version 10.5. If possible, I'd like to split my RAID 1+0 RST drive equally between a Linux and Windows ...
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Does windows 7 disk manager mirror disk or partitions?
My servers Raid 1 disappeared when I did a bios update, And now in order to get it back I have to format my 2 * 3tb hard drives. Which isnt really a solution for me.
So I have desiced to try and make ...
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Win7 soft-RAID failed, computer "jumped back in time"
I just rebooted my computer and upon logging into Windows, things seemed a little bit "off". I figured out rather quickly that everything was like it was two weeks ago. It was literally like ...
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Can I configure a partition of a drive to use RAID0 and still use the left over partition for storage?
I want to set up a RAID0 configuration. I only have a 80 GB drive and a 750 GB drive. I was hoping to only RAID 80 GB of the 750 GB drive so that it would match the 80 GB drive. I heard that this may ...
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Can I move existing Windows 7 setup to a RAID-1 array?
I have a the following setup:
machine with one 1TB hdd and with W7Ultimate installed on that drive (with RAID in BIOS).
Now I want to make it running as RAID 1, so I have two additional similar 1TB ...
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How to create a software RAID-1 array on Windows 7 not spanning whole disks
I have a brand new PC dual booting out of a single SSD drive (win7+debian).
I added a couple of 2T hd I want to use from both Win & Linux.
My target is to have two separate RAID-1 arrays on four ...
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Software RAID 0 under Window 7 on 2 HDD only (including system drive) - is it possible
I have two hard drives in my notebook. I cannot add third drive.
Is there a possibility to somehow set up software RAID 0 (striped) under Windows 7? My notebook does not support hardware RAID 0.
I ...
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OK to use Windows while a RAID array is building?
I've just put together a nice clean, fresh install of Windows 7 x64, and my two primary harddisks are building a software RAID1 array in the background while I type this.
But I want to move over ...
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