SSD boot and RAID 1 Array - possible?

[Modular]

I have a question regarding having an SSD as my boot drive and 2x4TB hard drives as storage in Raid 1 for redundancy. I would like to keep TRIM commands for the SSD. If I can't, then I'll just use a regular spindle disk.

My hardware is older, but I'm running W7 64bit. Is this possible?

Motherboard is a Biostar A460G m2+

I appreciate the help!

 

[brshoemak]

As long as you're running Windows 7, you can run a single SSD drive (OS) and also have two mechanical drives in a RAID1. Ideally you would ensure the settings in your BIOS for drives is AHCI but IDE will also work, albeit at lower performance levels.

 

[beginner99]

Yes with Intel on-board RAID using the Intel RST drivers an SSD not part of a RAID will get TRIM commands.

RAID-0 SSDs also get TRIM.

 

[Modular]

Yes with Intel on-board RAID using the Intel RST drivers an SSD not part of a RAID will get TRIM commands.

RAID-0 SSDs also get TRIM.

Oh nice. Is this new? Last time I was researching this everything I found seemed to say otherwise.

Do I just download the Intel RAID drivers from Intel? Sorry for the noob questions, but well, I'm a noob at this.

 

[beginner99]

Oh nice. Is this new? Last time I was researching this everything I found seemed to say otherwise.

Do I just download the Intel RAID drivers from Intel? Sorry for the noob questions, but well, I'm a noob at this.

I've never done it myself but yes. Get the neest driver for your chipset. Note that the newest features only apply to newest chipsets!

EDIT:
You are running an motherboard for AMD CPU so no, this does not work. Intel RST is for use with intel only.