Recent content by Mirddin

Yeah, that was a great board. Mine are still alive and well, I just had the upgrade itch and had to scratch. Can absolutely tell a difference in performance from the upgrade! Although I did accidentally format a drive on that mobo when I plugged 2 drives into the EZ-Raid sata ports without...

So a little update - I tried booting up with anything non-essential unplugged from the motherboard. Did not seem to change the boot times at all. I haven't yet tried these drives on another computer (will do that Friday actually). Some more background. I previously had these drives installed...

Thanks for the replies. I did end up reinstalling windows again this past weekend (1) because I was getting a new GTX 670 and (2) to see if I could work out the RAID speed issues. I did install Windows on just one SSD in the system to compare and it wasn't any faster than the 2 in RAID 0...

Well as suggested I plugged the spinners into the Intel 3 Gbps SATA ports and disabled the Marvell ones altogether. It took a second or two off the POST/detection phase, but that was not my concern to begin with. Honestly, I didn't expect this to make a difference in the Windows load time. It...

Just to clarify: I know there is no advantage at all to plugging in the HDDs to the Marvell 6Gbps ports (even if they were 6 Gbps HDDs). Frankly those ports were ever so slightly easier to get to than the others and that's why they were used.

Alrighty, my quandary is that my 2 SSDs in RAID 0 are slower booting into Windows 7 64-bit than a couple of other systems that just have a single SSD. Unless I’m somehow mistaken, shouldn’t 2 SSDs in a RAID 0 boot up faster than a single? I’m not including POST times here. I’m talking about from...