Just a little update for those of us wanting to jump on the SSD bandwagon
if the price is right. Corsair 32 Gig which is just about right for a boot
drive with Windows and programs. Use a larger mechanical drive for
downloads, media files etc.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233122&nm_mc=EMC-IGNEFL101910&cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL101910-_-EMC-101910-Index-_-SSD-_-20233122-L06B
Promo code: EMCZYZX45 is good until 10-25 and a $10 MIR for a final price
of $58.99. Tempting..
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 02:55:25 -0500, Jason Chue <[email protected]> wrote:
RaidXpert not supported by AMD? You sure?
I have an embedded AMD Athlon II Neo N36L with RS785E/SB820M chipset and
RaidXpert manages to support and enable write cache and NCQ.
Take a look at HP's service advisory;
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&objectID=c02541592
It says under Server 2008 R2 but it should be the same with Windows 7.
On 18 October 2010 23:21, Scoobydo <[email protected]> wrote:
RaidXpert seems to no longer be supported by AMD and Wikipeadia says its
for remote configuration. I'm using the SB710 RAID controller with the
latest Catalyst version pressing Cntl-F during bootup. It has very
limited
feature set but says that AHCI is enabled for my array. Thanks for the
reply, can you tell me more than Google about RaidXpert software? Is it
worth my time to pursue?
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 04:11:52 -0500, Jason Chue <[email protected]>
wrote:
Under RaidXpert, enable NCQ and write back cache for better performance.
You may also want to "short-stroke" the RAID 0 partition just for the
OS
and
important programs and leave the rest of space for other unimportant
stuff.
You can use 100GB from each drive (total 200GB) just for this RAID 0
partition. Access times will be better and read / writes will be
consistant
throughout like SSD drives.
On 17 October 2010 05:41, Scoobydo <[email protected]> wrote:
Just bought a second identical drive from Ebay to create a RAID 0
setup on
my game box below. Re-installed Win7 Pro and all my drivers copied
\Steamapps back into my new Steam installation and man is it fast.
Probably
not as quick as an SSD but still noticeably faster. This is my first
RAID
setup ever and the first time I've not used legacy IDE in the BIOS.
The
manual that came with my board walked me through it and it worked
right
the
first time. The only snag I ran into was my SATA DVD drive cable had
to
be
plugged into another port before I could install Windows. Highly
recommended..
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Main Machine:
Generic Steel Case
ASUS M4A89GTD Pro/USB3 Mobo
AMD Phenom II X6 1055T (Default speed)
OCZ DDR3 1333 (2x2=4)
Palit GTX460 1 Gig (OC'd to 865 MHz)
WD Cariar Black 640 Gig
Lite On 22X DVD Burner
ASUS 21.5" 1080P Monitor
fold...@home (11,000 PPD)
Game Box:
Cooler Master CM690 Mid-Tower
Gigabyte 785G/SB710
AMD Phenom II X2 555 C3
Corsair Dominator RAM 2 gigs
PowerColor HD5770 1 gig
Seasonic 550 watt PSU
2 Seagate 7200.12 500 gig (RAID 0)
LiteOn DVD Burner
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Opera's e-mail client
Main Machine:
Generic Steel Case
ASUS M4A89GTD Pro/USB3 Mobo
AMD Phenom II X6 1055T (Default speed)
OCZ DDR3 1333 (2x2=4)
Palit GTX460 1 Gig (OC'd to 865 MHz)
WD Cariar Black 640 Gig
Lite On 22X DVD Burner
ASUS 21.5" 1080P Monitor
fold...@home (11,000 PPD)
Game Box:
Cooler Master CM690 Mid-Tower
Gigabyte 785G/SB710
AMD Phenom II X2 555 C3
Corsair Dominator RAM 2 gigs
PowerColor HD5770 1 gig
Seasonic 550 watt PSU
2 Seagate 7200.12 500 gig (RAID 0)
LiteOn DVD Burner
