Sony Z VPC-Z11FHX Signature Collection RAID 0 help

Hello, I have a Sony Z VPC-Z11FHX Signature Collection. I wanna know if the 512gb storage (as mentioned in sony's website) is supposed to show as just one single drive. However under My computer it shows 4 SSDs of 128gb each.

-My storage controller is an Intel(R) ICH8M-E/ICH9M-E/5 Series SATA RAID Controller
-My SSDs are SAMSUNG MMDPE56GQDXP-MVB

Will I be able to do a RAID 0 configuration with the 4 ssds so, it will show under my computer as one single drive of 512gb?

 

Someone must have separated those out.

As delivered by sony, or if you just do the normal auto-restore thing, the 4 would be a single 512gb ,raid 0 drive.

 

Microsoft signature collection? Whoops. Make restore media. Create the RAID array. Restore the system

 

thanks for the replies, how do i do the "auto restore thing"? (btw i dont mind losing any files or documents. I just want the 512gb to appear as 1 single drive.)

 

Yes, I have the same system. It's supposed to show up as just one drive under my computer.

To restore: start>VAIO care>recovery & restore>recovery>recover computer.
!Remember to backup all your important docs and files to a portable drive or USB!

 

^That's not going to work, though - it won't recreate the raid array. He needs to make recovery dvd's from vaio care. Then create the raid array. Then restore the system with the recovery dvd's he made.

 

Just out of curiousness, where did you bought it? It's not supposed to be like that and they store should fix it for you.

 

I'm assuming Microsoft Store.

 

Interesting.

So let's say if my Raid array is fine, will restoring a full system image with Windows 7's backup and restore break the Raid?

 

^No. Not unless you decide to break it first.

 

Nope, RAID is on the hardware level (kinda) so your OS treats it like a single drive

 

Hello and thank you again for the replies. I was out of town thats why i couldnt reply before.

Now going back to my issue, will recreating the raid array delete my OS? and if it does, does that mean that I'll need both the windows' installation discs and the vaio recovery discs or just the vaio recovery discs?

 

^Yes it will and you just need the vaio discs. Create them, create the array (which will lose all your data) and then restore with the discs.

 

^Thanks, I thought the recovery discs didnt have the OS. Btw, I already did the vaio recovery discs.

In addition I made Windows' system repair discs and I'm doing right now a system image backup. Once I'm done backing up the system image, I'll create the raid array and I'll let you know if it worked.

Then I'll try the system image backup method if it doesn't work, I'll try the vaio recovery discs. I Hope at least one of those methods work.

Thanks again to all of you who took their time to post their comments.

 

^The vaio recover discs do contain the O/S. You just boot to them?

 

Hello again and sorry for not replying earlier. I was busy with some college HW, anyway.

I created the raid array and it was really easy to do, (a drive of 477gb appeared in the bios) but when I tried the restore system using the windows method it only appeared a drive of 106gb.

Then I created the raid array again and 477gb appeared in the bios. I used the vaio recovery discs this time, which took around 2 hours to restore the system. Now a single drive appears under My computer of about 468gb (i dont remember i think it was 463gb anyway) so the vaio method worked for me =)

My computer is now faster than before. with a JBOD configuration my windows experience was 5.9
Now with raid 0 is 6.4

Couldnt be more happier
Thank you all so much!