BonzaiDuck
Lifer
I have a nice system that is now 30 months old, using the Z68 chipset and i7-2600K. I'm currently troubleshooting an intermittent problem I suspect more and more arises from RAM overclocking. Once I'm sure this had been the cause, I'm going to replace the 4x4GB RAM with a 2x8GB set spec'd to run at the OC'd speed for the slower ones.
That sets up the timing of my purchase. It will be an advantage for me to buy the RAM together with a new Samsung EVO 840 and some other parts. That is, sorting out my problem troubleshooting, I want to MIGRATE an ISRT caching setup (under RAID) to a single SSD, since the price per GB (Samsung and other makers) has fallen to something around $0.60 per GB.
THE PROBLEM: ISRT is set up with Win 7 SP1 64-bit as RAID drive(s) in BIOS. This offers me two options:
-- Set up the single Samsung boot drive as RAID. I suspect there wouldn't be a problem in the cloning process -- something I'd done several times before. But earlier-gen SSDs did not implement TRIM for SSDs -- either for caching or as standalone boot devices.
-- Set up the single Samsung boot drive as ACHI. But here, the cloning process is likely to result in an unbootable result. Having looked into this briefly when I first built the system, I suspect there is a conversion procedure going from RAID to ACHI.
So -- what to do? Is TRIM now implemented for RAID-mode? Or -- how would I clone the accelerated RAID HDD to an ACHI SSD?
There seems to be less urgency to my purchase, and I want to be sure what it is that I have to do before I submit my order. Thus, if there's something wrong with any of the items, I won't be rushed to confirm it before the 30-day return period. And obviously -- I want the upgrades to proceed smoothly.
I can think of a possibility: the Intel controller on the board is set up for RAID; the Marvell SATAIII controller is set up as ACHI; and I could probably clone from one controller to the other -- then reset the Intel controller to ACHI and move the new SSD to it.
Your thoughts? Experiences? Insights? Wisdom?
That sets up the timing of my purchase. It will be an advantage for me to buy the RAM together with a new Samsung EVO 840 and some other parts. That is, sorting out my problem troubleshooting, I want to MIGRATE an ISRT caching setup (under RAID) to a single SSD, since the price per GB (Samsung and other makers) has fallen to something around $0.60 per GB.
THE PROBLEM: ISRT is set up with Win 7 SP1 64-bit as RAID drive(s) in BIOS. This offers me two options:
-- Set up the single Samsung boot drive as RAID. I suspect there wouldn't be a problem in the cloning process -- something I'd done several times before. But earlier-gen SSDs did not implement TRIM for SSDs -- either for caching or as standalone boot devices.
-- Set up the single Samsung boot drive as ACHI. But here, the cloning process is likely to result in an unbootable result. Having looked into this briefly when I first built the system, I suspect there is a conversion procedure going from RAID to ACHI.
So -- what to do? Is TRIM now implemented for RAID-mode? Or -- how would I clone the accelerated RAID HDD to an ACHI SSD?
There seems to be less urgency to my purchase, and I want to be sure what it is that I have to do before I submit my order. Thus, if there's something wrong with any of the items, I won't be rushed to confirm it before the 30-day return period. And obviously -- I want the upgrades to proceed smoothly.
I can think of a possibility: the Intel controller on the board is set up for RAID; the Marvell SATAIII controller is set up as ACHI; and I could probably clone from one controller to the other -- then reset the Intel controller to ACHI and move the new SSD to it.
Your thoughts? Experiences? Insights? Wisdom?
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