Good Job Intel

Spikesoldier

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You made adding a RAID0 member disk SUPER EASY with the rapid storage technology app. Didn't know you could do this.

1. Plug new SSD in
2. Boot to windows, skip Intel matrix
3. Open intel RST and highlight existing array
4. Click 'Add Disk'
5. Data Migrates partially from existing disks with new disk as target.
6. Reboot and extend volume in Disk management.

Viola! Much easier than what I anticipated, which was a full windows reinstall and to re-download and install all my games.

I was recently running into capacity issues (damn you, steam sale!) and I'm real pleased with how painless Intel made the process.

9/10 , the only way they could have improved was to extend the volume automatically, that would have totally been too easy.
 

corkyg

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Nice to see a satisfied customer!
 

Shmee

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wow that is amazing! I had no idea that a raid array could ever be bootable without a reinstall, and without loading a driver cd/usb drive!

does it allow you to set stripe size?
 

FishAk

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Much easier than what I anticipated, which was a full windows reinstall and to re-download and install all my games.

It's great that Intel made the process so simple. But if they didn't, I would prefer simply restoring an image with the games, settings, activations, etc. already included, rather than starting over from scratch.

If you don't currently have an image set to recover from, you will most likely be reinstalling everything from scratch anyway. An equipment malfunction, user error, or malware will eventually doom your current install.
 
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COPOHawk

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FYI...this app also allows replacement of a failed disk in a RAID array the same way.

Case in point: I had an SBS 2008 server with two Seagate Barracuda ES.2 500 GB drives in a RAID 1 array, that was created about 3 years ago. Recently, one disk failed (hardware). Seagate seamlessly RMA'd the drive. I reinstalled it in the server, then ran the similar process in the Intel app to integrate the new drive into the RAID array. Worked easily.

In the past, I would have had to go into the BIOS area and watch the rebuilding process, to be sure it was working properly. Or boot into Windows, then reboot into the BIOS area to check status.

I really dig how this process could be used to create a RAID 1 array from a single disk as well.