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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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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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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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Installing Windows 7 on RAID 0 created in Intel Rapid Storage Technology
I ordered a ThinkPad T70 from 51nb and upon arrival I fitted 2x Samsung 960 250GB NVMe drives. As per instructions provided to me by 51nb I setup a RAID with the following configuration using Intel ...
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Change SATA mode to AHCI before reinstalling Windows on new drive - possible lose of data on non raid drive?
Currently I've got 5 HDD connected to my PC: 1 is the OS drive, 2 are connected into raid0 volume0, 2 are connected into raid0 volume1 (the volume numbers might be wrong, I'm writing this from memory, ...
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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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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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Failure of 1 SSD in Raid-0 that was bootdrive stopping computer from booting
I've spent 4+ hours searching this site and Google for someone to have/address my issue, and have had no luck so far, so I was wondering if someone could help me. Thank you!
My computer has 2 32 GB ...
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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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RAID vs AHCI for backup
My SSD with Windows 7 recently crashed, so I'm going to purchase a new SSD and install Windows 7 to replace it. I'll also have to reinstall all the drivers for my hardware (motherboard, graphics card, ...
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Can Windows 7 make good (high performance) use of RAID 1 between a SSD and a HDD?
Recently my hard drive died, and I lost all my files and I am really sad.
Right now I am making a software 1 raid between my 2250MBps/1850MBps Pcie 3 8x SSD, and my 1TB 170MBps/170MBps hard drive.
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How to replace SSD boot disk when computer has RAID 1 data disk connected to it in Windows 7
I am current using a computer (Intel I7) with a 60GB SSD and two 2TB drives in a RAID 1 configuration. The 60 GB drive has the Windows 7 operating system on it and the RAID disks are used for data.
I ...
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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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Problems creating a bootable RAID volume when imaging from HDD to SSD
I have an old Dell XPS420 with an Intel RAID controller on the MB. For years I’ve had RAID 1 enabled on a 2x1TB array set up as two volumes: A 300GB volume which has Windows 7 installed on it and the ...
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AMD RAID controller sees drives & RAID 1; Windows & RAIDXpert don't
I've got two SSDs I'm trying to work in RAID 1 on a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5.
Here is the weird combination of all the different variables with a fairly ideal testing scenario (plenty of spare parts)......
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