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    Need Help Restoring to Factory Settings.

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by TribalOne, Mar 6, 2011.

  1. TribalOne

    TribalOne Notebook Consultant

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    Hello All. Just wanted to ask what one needs too do to remove the Raid 0 and return it too factory Drive settings? My current raid volume for Os is getting too small and Im wanting to upgrade too a SSD for my Os and a second drive for everything else. any advice welcome. Also can anyone recommend a good SSD? ive been getting mixed reviews and would like too hear some success stories.
     
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    Well you dont have to do anything. GSKILL makes a good SSd which is what I have. I used to have 2 500 gb WD's in raid 0, but when you put the ssd and another hdd in, it will not raid then. So you dont have to do anything. Ive actually done this, so i know. When you turn the laptop over and go to put the ssd in. put it int he primary bay which is the left bay, and the HDD of your choice in the secondary bay and install windows.
     
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    TANWare Just This Side of Senile, I think. Super Moderator

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    Being too small, then you have close to 1TB there. That is a problem as then an SSD will not be big enough.

    Your best solution is an eSATA 2TB drive, get all the user data over to it, with the lowered capacity on the array then look to SSD or even keep the array.

    If you need it all back local to increase capacity you could use a 2 TB or 1 TB over USB to back up, then restore to 2x750 drives in Raid0. The problem right now is we need 9.5 mm drives and 750 MB is the limit so 1.5 TB will be the new array. Rumer is we will see 9.5 mm drives so you could wait for them and get a 2TB RAID0.

    This is one reason I do not like RAID0, once you capacity saturate them it can be a pain to upgrade...........
     
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    thx for the advice, got everything up and running now :) Certainly appreciate all everyone on this forum does to help .
     
    TribalOne, Mar 8, 2011
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