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    raid 0 question

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by dnomyar105, Sep 16, 2010.

  1. dnomyar105

    dnomyar105 Notebook Guru

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    The new msi gx660r supports raid 0. Should I raid an ssd with an hdd or should I just keep them separate?

    Your response is appreciated.
     
    dnomyar105, Sep 16, 2010
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    Marecki_clf Homo laptopicus

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    You should keep them separate. In RAID0, all drives work at the speed of the SLOWEST of them. Besides, an SSD is faster than RAID0 made of traditional HDDs already :). The best setup would be: SSD for system, HDD for additional storage.
     
    Marecki_clf, Sep 16, 2010
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    dnomyar105 Notebook Guru

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    Aight thank you.
     
    dnomyar105, Sep 16, 2010
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    OOps wrong thread..
     
    y0sh33, Sep 16, 2010
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  5. Chumby

    Chumby Notebook Enthusiast

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    How do you turn RAID0 off though?

    I go into Bios and select AHCI, but then when I reboot it just says... no operating system installed no matter which drive I boot from.

    Cheers
    Chumby
     
    Chumby, Sep 17, 2010
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    saturnotaku Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Disabling a RAID-0 array destroys the data on it so you need to reinstall Windows.
     
    saturnotaku, Sep 17, 2010
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    Gotcha... did the CNTRL I thing on boot and then broke the raid... now reinstalling from recovery...

    Cheers
    Chumby
     
    Chumby, Sep 17, 2010
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    Chumby Notebook Enthusiast

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    Still having troubles getting AHCI going on new SSD

    I am trying to get c300 SSD going as OS and HDD for data.

    I created some recovery disks straight away.

    I installed windows from recovery on SSD in IDE mode. Went in and changed the registry setting to 0 (from 3), rebooted, went into bios and changed to AHCI mode... expecting for new drivers to be installed on next reboot. Instead I just get the message insertable bootable media.

    I try to reformat SSD now with recovery disk... but it says the system is not normal so it crashes out.

    If I change back to IDE, windows loads up OK.... however I want AHCI to work...

    Any ideas? Starting to drive me crazy....

    Cheers
    Chumby
     
    Chumby, Sep 17, 2010
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