Clevo x7200 and Sager NP7280 owners lounge

[jclausius]

I don't know if this is important, but before changing / removing , you may want to do CTRL+I at boot to make sure the RAID volume has been removed from the ICHR10 BIOS.

Now, removing the drives or changing from RAID to AHCI may do this for you, but by removing it you know it has been removed from the Intel BIOS RAID config. Again, I have no idea if it is important, but it would be something that resets the BIOS back to its original state.

[wwoods]

I don't know if this is important, but before changing / removing , you may want to do CTRL+I at boot to make sure the RAID volume has been removed from the ICHR10 BIOS.

Now, removing the drives or changing from RAID to AHCI may do this for you, but by removing it you know it has been removed from the Intel BIOS RAID config. Again, I have no idea if it is important, but it would be something that resets the BIOS back to its original state.

Aactually, when you switch from RAID to ACHI in the BIOS, you cant even do a ctl-I to access the ICHR10 BIOS, its just not avaliable if you dont have RAID set in the BIOs.

Found that out in my many variations and experaments.....

[jclausius]

Yeppers. That is why I mentioned doing Ctrl+I before changing / removing things in the system.

Does going from RAID to AHCI then back to RAID remove the volume?

I want to reiterate *none* of this may be important as it may be covered by switching the AHCI/RAID setting. But for those OCD based ppl like myself, it is a step which brings the system back to its original state (w/ out any RAID volumes) in the beginning stages.

[Azeroth]

Regarding the Ctrl-I comments, by this do you mean prior to physically removing the raided hdds, to be extra safe I should first go into the Intel utility (Ctrl - I) and delete the raid volume?

Thanks

[jclausius]

Yes, that is what I was suggesting. However, it may be totally superfluous.

[Azeroth]

Thanks. Also, based on my review of the manual, the first two HDD slots are on the left, the third separate on the right of the case. For the panel that contains the first two HDD bays, do you know if bay one (i.e. primary) is on the bottom or the top (I assume from the pictures they are on top of each other?)

[jclausius]

On my machine, the slot/bay closest to the "bottom" is the 1st drive. The slot/bay closest to the motherboard (furthest away from the bottom) is the 2nd drive.

[wwoods]

Hey, need some opinions on something, I have ben loking at this product:

Disk Cache, Hybrid Disk Cache and RamDisk

to speed up disk access....

what ya all think.

[Geekz]

Hey, need some opinions on something, I have ben loking at this product:

Disk Cache, Hybrid Disk Cache and RamDisk

to speed up disk access....

what ya all think.

depends on what you'll use it for, if it's for things like putting a browser and temp files in there then there's little boost compared to an ssd.

if it's humongous read/writes like a database for example then the benefits are noticeable

[wwoods]

depends on what you'll use it for, if it's for things like putting a browser and temp files in there then there's little boost compared to an ssd.

if it's humongous read/writes like a database for example then the benefits are noticeable

All my tmp and browser are on my SSD boot drive, my D drive, is a raid1 mirror, contains all my apps and data, so I was looking at faster load times etc......

Plus the few gams I play are also on there.

I am testing it now, and I do see a improvement