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    Exclude system disk from Raid

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by KDs, Nov 20, 2017.

  1. KDs

    KDs Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi. I have the GT70 2PC Dominator with the superraid option (3 msatadrives). Anyone know if it is possible to exclude the system drive from the raid and do a raid0 setup with the other two. My intention is to have the raidsetup for games and achieve faster loadtimes etc. ,or must the system drive be involved in the raid to get it to work. I searched around but have not found the answer.


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    1. Backup all data, and delete the whole RAID array.
    2. Create a new RAID array but leave the system drive out of RAID group.
    3. Install a fresh OS onto your single disk drive, and load driver for RAID controller to work
     
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    you have to re-create the RAID Array by deleting it, then only select the other 2 disks for the RAID Array. Then install the OS on that single drive that you didn't RAID although I don't see why you'd wanna do that.

    On my system that you see in my sig.

    the 2x Samsung 960 PRO 2TB are both in RAID 0 (Super RAID 4). I partitioned them as C: for the OS = 200 GB and D: for Data and games = 3.6TB

    Then I combined the 3rd mSATA which is not NVMe 1TB 850 PRO with the 4TB 2.5 inch 850 Pro as a spanned disk, that's not RAID, that just combined them into one large drive which is 5TB
     
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    Sorry if you got me wrong. This is what i have. Sanddisk 128 GB with system configured as ahci in bios. [​IMG] My intention is to add 2 Samsung mSATA 850 EVO 250GB to the free slots and do a raid0. Is it possible just to change to raid in bios and reenter bios and choose the two Samsungdisk as raid0 and reboot. Will it work ? ...and just to clarify. I dont have raid right now, only the sandisk as ahci with system.


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    ...and of course. can this be done without reinstalling the system??
     
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