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SSD Configuration Setup Choices

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phusion36

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Need some help on this one. I just purchased a Samsung 830 256GB SSD. I have an Asus P8P67 EVO motherboard which has 2 Intel 6GB connections and 4 Intel 3GB connections. I have read the Marvell controller should be avoided if possible.

My current setup is a Raid0 config using two WD Black 750GB drives, I wanted to keep this for files storage and such and use the SSD drive for my OS and applications. My question is with the motherboard I have what is the best way to get the most out of these 3 drives? I have googled around and I haven’t been able to come up with a solid answer. Thanks for the help.
 
Do you have the RAID 0 data backed up? If not, go ahead and do that. All should work out, but I don't want to take blame if the RAID blows up and stores the only copies 🙂.

OS, programs, and in particular, games that are bottlenecked by loading times: new SSD. Anything else, and any really big stuff: HDD/RAID.

Make sure AHCI is on, plug it into an Intel 6Gbps, and install Windows 7 to it. Windows 7 should automatically align the partitions, and configure services, correctly. If you don't use hibernate (S4, suspend-to-disk), disabling that will get you some extra free space.

In theory, you should be able to put the SSD higher than the RAID 0 in the boot order, and not have to change anything regarding the RAID. I would still back it up, though, because IME, RAID 0 and 1 can be quite fragile in the face of configuration changes.
 
Thanks for the info, makes a lot of sense. It is kind of funny to see that this is an upgrade. I do a lot of video editing and rendering so I will take the advise and use the RAID 0. I through in a couple of spare HDD drives last night and began copying data as I figured the RAID could lose its configuration, I mean I have seen it happen before. Thanks again.
 
Doing video work, definitely keep the RAID 0 around. Your new SSD may be faster, but it shouldn't be much different with big streaming reads and writes, and another device to do big I/O to can't hurt.
 
Plug the SSD into SATA-0 6Gbps

Plug HDD1 into SATA-0 3Gbps
Plug HDD2 into SATA-1 3Gbps
Plug any optical into any SATA 3Gbps port

Turn off the evil Marvell controller in BIOS and never use it.
 
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