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I'm wondering which configuration is best to use with Windows 7 Pro (or 8) when performing a clean install of a new OS. Granted, the AHCI appears to be the newer configuration offering more speed and data transfer while RAID has been around much longer yet offers more reliability in terms of data mirroring/imaging for fault tolerance in the event of drive failure or data corruption, which no one wants to see happen. Of course data backups to web servers or external drives provides a total solution to this, but can be more time consuming when large program and data files need to be restored.
There is just not a whole lot of discussion on this as if it is common knowledge, so articles on the subject (when searched for) don't really give much detailed information or tips on how to implement any one selection. For example, I just finished a new rig which POST and decided I wanted to create a RAID 1 array on a Marvel controller, which allows two drives to connect. I connected one SSD and one HDD. The manual instructed me to copy the driver to a flash drive (from another computer) and load the driver when installing the Windows 7 Pro OS. I'm assuming these two drives (SSD/HDD) are now combined in an array to make up the "C" drive, and any other drives connected to other SATA ports will get assigned a new drive letter?? Such as my ODD connected to a 3GB port gets assigned driver letter "D". At least this is how the drives appear in Windows Explorer, and I can't load any applications on the HDD.
Anyway, this is something noobs like myself need to learn, especially when one has not installed many if any OSs before, and the Microsoft knowledge base is useless on this subject.
Any tips or advice is truly appreciated.
There is just not a whole lot of discussion on this as if it is common knowledge, so articles on the subject (when searched for) don't really give much detailed information or tips on how to implement any one selection. For example, I just finished a new rig which POST and decided I wanted to create a RAID 1 array on a Marvel controller, which allows two drives to connect. I connected one SSD and one HDD. The manual instructed me to copy the driver to a flash drive (from another computer) and load the driver when installing the Windows 7 Pro OS. I'm assuming these two drives (SSD/HDD) are now combined in an array to make up the "C" drive, and any other drives connected to other SATA ports will get assigned a new drive letter?? Such as my ODD connected to a 3GB port gets assigned driver letter "D". At least this is how the drives appear in Windows Explorer, and I can't load any applications on the HDD.
Anyway, this is something noobs like myself need to learn, especially when one has not installed many if any OSs before, and the Microsoft knowledge base is useless on this subject.
Any tips or advice is truly appreciated.