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    Quick question about raid 0

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by T3Vince, Apr 30, 2011.

  1. T3Vince

    T3Vince Notebook Consultant

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    Am using a m17x R2 with 1 SSD drive (256gb) and a 256 HDD. When reformatting the laptop I accidentally enabled raid in the bios but when I rebooted the computer, I skipped the option to actually raid the 2 drives together.
    So what was my laptop running on all this while? Raid or AHCI?
    Thanks
     
    T3Vince, Apr 30, 2011
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    zchay7e Notebook Consultant

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    Its probably running in AHCI config. You must define the Raid volumes first before it runs as Raid. If you don't know how to define a Raid volume then you are NOT running in Raid. Logical?
     
    zchay7e, May 1, 2011
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    Thanks! I figured as much. Just needed confirmation.
     
    T3Vince, May 2, 2011
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