Ideas on upgrading my desktop

[nekrosoft13]

Originally Posted by six_storm

Not sure if it will work or not. The more I'm reading, it looks like it won't work. Dang, I just reformatted about 4 weeks ago lol. Guess I may just have to reformat again and start over. At least maybe it'll be faster this time installing the OS and apps.

last time I looked into same process found the same info, that going from Raid to non-raid or non-raid to raid will not work.

I was planning to do the same maybe a year ago, but after reading about it decided against it.

[six_storm]

Well nevermind, apparently my motherboard DOESN'T SUPPORT RAID. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


How could I have missed this little detail? I honestly thought my mobo supported at least RAID 0/1. ARGHGHHGHGH!!!!!!


six_FAIL

[zoomy942]

um. since we are friends i'll just say fail instead of elaborating it with pictures and parades....

[six_storm]

Originally Posted by zoomy942

um. since we are friends i'll just say fail instead of elaborating it with pictures and parades....

Thanks buddy.

[six_storm]

Talked about this with a co-worker and he has a PCI-X RAID card he is going to sell me for $10. I think I'll give that a try.

[bacon12]

You have a board that will take the pic-x?

[six_storm]

Originally Posted by bacon12

You have a board that will take the pic-x?

Yup.

http://www.gigabyte-usa.com/Products...me=GA-P35-DS3L

[six_storm]

Originally Posted by slaWter

That board doesn't have a PCI-X slot.
Only PCIe and normal PCI.

Are you sure this RAID controller is a 64 bit PCI-X card or simply PCIe?

PCI 1x is what I meant to say, sorry.

Not sure if it's 64-bit compatible or not. I'll have to see. He will let me try before I buy too.

[six_storm]

Originally Posted by six_storm

BTW, here is the current speeds of my single drive:



Bottleneck huh?

I just cloned my system drive onto one of these Samsung drives, took about 20 minutes. Here are the results of another HD Tune test:



Anyone know why it declines over time? Obviously, I'm getting about 2x faster speeds when you look at max and average speeds. Not too shabby. Can't wait to get these things in a RAID 0 though . . .

Hey six fail, what software did you use to clone your drive?

[six_storm]

Originally Posted by Bearclaw

Hey six fail, what software did you use to clone your drive?

Acronis. We got a copy at work and use it like crazy, especially when we have to deploy multiple workstations for one site.

Originally Posted by six_storm

Acronis. We got a copy at work and use it like crazy, especially when we have to deploy multiple workstations for one site.

That's what I thought. Thanks. I tried it once a few years back and I must have hit some wrong options because the original drive go erased. :/ I'll try it again.