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What are the pros/cons of SSD vs RAID 0 in the alienware laptops? [closed]
I'm considering purchasing a new Alienware laptop for my software development and testing work. I'm looking at the M15 R3. I'm hung up on the hard drive choices. The Dell config page give 2 choices: ...
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Combining SSDs using RAID-0
If I have 2 SSDs via SATA3, both reaching speeds of about 500MB/s, which is close to SATA3 limit, does it make sense to combine them using RAID0? I mean if the SATA3 chip can provide the 6Gb/s speed ...
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Is using multiple SSDs in RAID 0 good for reliability?
I'm asking this because, unlike HDDs, the main lifetime limiting factor of an SSD is write cycles. By using RAID 0, it's effectively doubling the amount of write cycles usable, and theoretically ...
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RAID 0 speed improvement
I've got a free Samsung EV0 840 120GB from my uncle. I already got a 250 EVO 840 in my computer. Now I was asking myself if I got a significant speed boost if I put them in RAID 0. I know the total ...
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Two SATA-3 vs four SATA-2 SSD drives in RAID 0 [closed]
I have a relatively old motherboard (msi BIG BANG-XPOWER) that has 8 SATA ports, 6 of which are SATA-2 and 2 of which are SATA-3 and I'm thinking of creating a RAID-0 array of two or four SSD drives. ...
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How to setup Raid0 while having a ssd has main boot
i tried setuping this up.
SSD with windows to boot on
2 x 2T Hard Drive
When i switched my sata configuration in my bios to Raid to configure the other disks, my main boot ssd stoped working. It ...
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RAID 0 volatile volume cache mode configuration
I discovered that in IRST there is an option to set a cache mode for my 3 SSD RAID 0 array.
I've read the documentation by Intel and have some questions:
Are there any overall benefits/risks from ...
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Raid 0 (OS) + SSD Cache, what are performances like compared to pure SSD (OS)
I'm considering a RAID 0 setup with an SSD cache drive. Will I see a noticeable difference in speed with the SSD cache drive, will this even work?
No I will not install the OS on the SSD. I'd prefer ...
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RAID-0 bottlenecking when reading and writing simultaneously?
I have 4 Samsung 840 Pro SSDs running in hardware RAID on an Intel RS2BL080 LSI RAID card. My read and write times are incredible:
$ dd bs=1M count=10000 if=/dev/zero of=test.img conv=fdatasync
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TRIM support on Intel RS2BL080 Hardware RAID card?
I've got an Intel RS2BL080 hardware RAID card and I'd like to know if it supports TRIM on my RAID-0 array of SSDs. I've heard that the Intel 7 series integrated RAID solutions that ship with ...
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Is it possible to migrate a boot RAID volume from an older motherboard to a newer one? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Raid 0 - what happens with the data when hdds plugged into another motherboard
Background info
I am going to upgrade my current setup from an X58 to an X79 and I have 2 RAID ...
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Should I use Windows write cache if I have RAID controller + BBU?
I have ARECA ARC-1231ML 2 GB Cache and RAID 0 with 4 A-data 30 GB SSD drives and sometimes Windows is checking filesystem during boot.
I think the problem is that my system is using RAM as write ...
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Raid-0 (2xSSD) + Raid-1 (1xHDD) possible?
Is it possible to have the following setup?
2 x SSD (2x128gb) in RAID-0 (for performance)
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1 x HDD (1x500gb but using 128gb) in RAID-1 (for redudancy)
If so, does the HDD mirror give a decrease ...
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Is it possible to make raid 0 from 2 ssd drives? [duplicate]
Like in the title, is it possible. I was thinking about that last year but everybody told me that it's not possible due to controller issues. Today I revisited that idea after seeing awesome vids on ...
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To RAID or not to RAID: SSDs and virtualization
I am approaching that time where my main PC has slowed enough due to Windows rot that I should probably reinstall. Instead of spending a week arm-wrestling, reinstalling and configuring only to find ...
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