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    Windows software raid 0 on ph150hm?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Nwmcsween, Oct 3, 2011.

  1. Nwmcsween

    Nwmcsween Newbie

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    Has anyone tried software raid 0 on windows 7 with the ph150hm?
     
    Nwmcsween, Oct 3, 2011
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    Anthony@MALIBAL Company Representative

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    Nope, but if you give it a try, let us know the results :)

    I for one would be curious to see how it compares to hardware RAID in the P170HM. I imagine it will be slower/potentially less reliable, but who knows. If it works well, it may negate one of the main reasons for upgrading to the P170HM- granted more people are going SSD than RAID anymore.
     
    Anthony@MALIBAL, Oct 3, 2011
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    It should be the same as for xp64, right click the computer then select manage and disk / storage manage, select the 2 empty partitions, hopefully on 2 separate hd's and LVM them, think this is a 2 step process.

    Raid0 on 1 hd / ssd will still only push the max speed of the 1 hd.

    Might first need to do 1 partition at a time them merge them into a lvm raid0, sry it has been a long time since I did it / 3 years.

    If you can not find the disk manage option then control panel and administrative tools or something that sounds like this, disk / storage manage.

    Not sure if win7 will boot from a LVM or even install without some form of driver that needs to load during install.

    You should be able to get a pcmcia express 34 / 54 card with 2 esata port + external 2 port sata enclosure / 2x separate esata enclosures via this pcmcia express card, connect them and then do lvm on it. Again not sure if you can boot from it, likely best to use as the 2+3rd hd's for this and only when needed.

    The pcmcia express card will get very hot even with old school sataI or SATAII drives. Not sure if there is a SATAIII pcmcia express 34/54 card.

    PS> you might be able to do it via the 2x usb3.0 slots as well, have not yet tried USB lvm, just make sure it is sataIII inside the enclosure and usb3.0 ready enclosures for max performance.

    Some advice make a backup of the raid0 info on a separate hd as raid0 is well there for speed not for data security / backups over a long time.

    Hope this helps.
     
    MadRocker, Oct 4, 2011
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