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    Can Z2's SSD divided to two disk?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by oldman1881, Dec 2, 2011.

  1. oldman1881

    oldman1881 Notebook Enthusiast

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    never use SSD and raid 0, I like to know any way to divide SSD to two disks?
    one for systm and one for data, and it is easy to ghost system drive and restore later.
     
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    Palda Notebook Consultant

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    Intel Rapid Storage -> just destroy the RAID, but be prepared to lose everything currently on the disk.
     
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    Ashers Notebook Evangelist

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    Sick Nick Notebook Consultant

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    You can even do this from within windows 7 using the disk management tool..... Just shrink the C drive and create a new D drive from the free space.
     
  5. Achusaysblessyou

    Achusaysblessyou eecs geek ftw :D

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    Partitioning the drives... wont stop them from still having a higher chance of failing since you're still using two drives... (if one dies, you lose the other... even with 13 partitions...)

    Hey OP, is there a reason you want to separate your two SSDs, most people here don't have problems besides the aforementioned higher chance of failing (just make backups a bit more frequently and use stuff like Dropbox or other online storage services to augment that)

    As for backing up your Z, I'm not sure if this still works on a Z2, but pyr0 made this guide for a Z1:

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/sony/512180-how-make-full-backup-your-vaio-z.html#post6625769

    Should still work, but no guarantees
     
  6. oldman1881

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    if do so, it should be 2 disks, right?

    any way still keep raid 0, then using winpe to do partion job then recover from recovery disk? or does Z2's recovery has option to set C: as 50G?

    BTW, does Z2 still have recovery disk? even for 128G Z2?

    with raid 0 still able to using norton ghost?
     
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    beaups New Jack Hustler

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    ^why don't you tell everyone what you are looking to accomplish, and why, so we can better help you?
     
  8. oldman1881

    oldman1881 Notebook Enthusiast

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    OK, I used to have two drives, one for system and apps around 50G and rest for data, I will perform ghost for SYS drive after apps installation and restore every 6 mths to clean the system drive to make it runs faster, for data drive, I will sync to my external HD every week. So can we do this for Z2?
     
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    Ashers Notebook Evangelist

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    Sounds like partitioning is the way to go - at least you can size the data and system drives the way you want.