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    MSI Gx620,gt627,gt628,1651 is raid possible if you put a HDD in the optical bay?

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by moral hazard, Feb 13, 2010.

  1. moral hazard

    moral hazard Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Hi,

    I was thinking, since we have a sata optical drive and the ICH9M southbridge supports raid 0/1, would it be possible to set up raid?

    i.e. Buy a HDD caddy for the optical bay, stick in second HDD, would there be a raid option in the BIOS (under the SB option in the advanced menu, use old BIOS for this)?
     
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    no the system does not support raid that we have even though normally the chipset does its not that way in the 620
     
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    Well thanks for the info, I guess I would have seen a raid controller in the device manager if we had one...
     
    moral hazard, Feb 14, 2010
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    You can still do software raid through windows, while not as fast as hardware raid, it's still faster then jabod.
     
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    Hmm, this makes me think raid is possible, as you can see there is an option for raid in my 1.0T BIOS:
     

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    That's nice ! 2 7200rpm drive is better. Do you have 2 identical drive laying around or borrow so you could try ?
     
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    No, I wish i did...

    But someone must have two, just use the 1.0T BIOS, if you need it I can give a link.
     
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    It won't work on 1722. Besides I would still need a 2nd HDD

    If it's there it should work , is it a modded one ?
     
    Dead2th3world, Apr 2, 2010
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    Aye, just replace the ODD dead, put the disk drive in an external casing, i'd likesomeone to make this happen though :).
     
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    No, that's a BIOS I got straight from the MSI download page.
    It's an official BIOS, just an older one.
     
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    Have you tried selecting RAID and booting into the Intel matrix storage manager?

    Check the Intel matrix console in windows too. Should be ICH9M-E
     
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    That's weird as MSI Gseries don't come with twin HDD. Worth a try though :p
     
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    Great idea, I'll try it now :D

    BTW it is the ICH9M-E/M controller.
     
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    I selected raid, then I just got a BSOD at the windows loading screen.

    I'm not sure, is there something I have to press to get into the storage manager?
     
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    of course youd get a BSOD, its not set up yet lol

    CTRL+F or I (if i recall correctly)

    EDIT: press CTRL+I repeatedly after it POSTS. Ref
     
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    Ok, thanks I'll try again.
     
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    CTRL+F didn't work, I forgot to try CTRL+I lol, I'll try it now.
     
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    CTRL+I didn't work either.
     
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    Might do it by the end of this year ;) . I'm moving soon so no time for big project.
     
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