75ZT CommunityA social community of enthusiasts, owners, appreciators and collectors. With expert knowledge of all things from MG to Rover and beyond.2013-05-13T09:08:29+00:00https://www.75ztcommunity.co.uk/feed.php?f=29&t=6952&mode2013-05-13T09:08:29+00:002013-05-13T09:08:29+00:00https://www.75ztcommunity.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=6952&p=66420#p66420 I've started restoring Win7 to the single SSD but there doesn't seem much in the way of performance increase, despite secure erasing the drive. Intel tools still gives 100% efficiency on the drive though and they are still way faster than a standard 7200 HDD. I'm probably too damn picky!
]]>2013-04-03T22:26:46+00:002013-04-03T22:26:46+00:00https://www.75ztcommunity.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=6952&p=65328#p65328 Cheers Duncan
]]>2013-04-03T21:29:43+00:002013-04-03T21:29:43+00:00https://www.75ztcommunity.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=6952&p=65324#p65324 So I did a backup of the data to an external drive expecting to have trouble when I upgraded to a new motherboard and so on, since the raid drivers have to match the motherboard.
Having done that, I put in the new motherboard expecting win7 to recognise the pair as separate drives, but somehow it knew they were a raid array, and left them as configured. No separate driver loaded.
Doesn't help a lot but win 7 can cope with some arrays without extra drivers.
]]>2013-04-03T08:28:06+00:002013-04-03T08:28:06+00:00https://www.75ztcommunity.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=6952&p=65289#p65289 Now deleting the array isn't a problem, I can do that, but I have an another array handled on the same software on the motherboard and then another array on different hardware but still controlled by the motherboard. If I re-install Windows do I need to setup the raid first during installation? I remember in XP that you use to have to install Raid drivers first but I can't remember if that was just for the drives the OS was going on. I have a fair amount of important stuff on the drives which at present I can't backup to a secondary source as I don't have the facility and an online backup would take years (think TB in the double figures).
If I did a straight forward install without installing the raid drivers would I compromise the array's through the OS? They are handled by the motherboard so I'm thinking no, but some clarification is most definitely needed! I don't fancy windows telling me I need to initialize the drives or something post install!