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I've got a Thermaltake Blacx 5G (USB 3) that works fine with 3TB drives.

If it's a newer drive, you could 'secure erase' it - a command built into the drive where it does all the work and not the OS/software. That should make it wipe the entire thing (or at least attempt to), including bad/reallocated sectors etc and not just what it presents to the system.

Maybe it's a bad cable? Switch them round and see if the other drive then throttles back to 3Gb/s. If it does, maybe it's the port? Switch ports -that could mess up the RAID config - take an image and restore? If the same drive still throttles back having changed cables and ports, you have...

Yes. The RAID bit happens at a much lower level and is not something you should concern yourself with. Treat the drive(s) as you would any other drive.

It's the same reason you don't full format or zero fill SSD drives. When they're unused (erased), the drive knows it and can just write to the NAND. When used (zero filled or whatever), it has to erase before it can write - thus slowing things down. It's kinda covered here -...

It will cause reactivation if that Samsung hdd was his only one though and he needs to reinstall from scratch on its replacement :)

SSD performs best when the NAND hasn't been touched (as in, ever written to). The only way to get it back to that stage is to Secure Erase the drive (or TRIM those areas). Wiping free space (where TRIM isn't working) will do more harm than good. So the best thing you can do is take an...

You typically put identical drives into RAID configurations... obviously a mechanical hdd and new SSD are worlds apart. So whilst it's technically possible, you'd just never do it.

Maybe there are 2 IDE/AHCI type settings you need to be checking? One for the Intel controller and ther other for the Marvell one. When it's all sorted and the Marvell drivers have been installed, that 'pciide' bit will change to something Marvellish... 'mv91xx'.

Is that 'System Reserved' bit now on the ssd? If not, your machine won't boot when the 1TB drive isn't present. Basically, (going by the pic in post 10) you've got bits of the Windows 7 installed on both drives.

Just make sure you connect it to a 6Gb/s port on the Intel controller and not any 3rd party one you might have (Marvell etc). You may find it already has the 0009 firmware on it. If not, the firmware update comes as an ISO that you burn to CD/DVD and boot from.

Nope, there aren't really any settings to change in it anyway! As you're benchmarking your C: drive, any other activity on the drive could lower your scores. I've also read of certain processor C states slowing things down a bit sometimes for some poeple.

It doesn't look like you've install the Intel Rapid Storage Technology driver... that could be it. That's why yours says msahci instead of iaStor.

All SandForce write speed benchmarks are inflated when using easily compressible data. The AS SSD benchmark shows the raw speed (and a more realistic picture) of the NAND used in the drive. Also, the award was from bit-tech, not OCUK. I guess that's just where the picture came from.

Forget what's on the CDs - they're usually out of date the second they're created! Get the current version of all the drivers you need from the various websites and put them on a USB stick. Don't forget the network card / audio driver too.

Yeah but they're only on the Marvell controller, not the decent Intel one. :( Akasa do some nice black, round SATA 3 cables if you're in the market for one/some. http://www.akasa.co.uk/update.php?tpl=product/product.detail.tpl&no=181&type=Cables&type_sub=SATA Cables&model=SATA3-50_100-BK...

If you look at the settings in WinRAR, there is a checkbox to make it only use the temp directory for removable disks. So assuming that checkbox IS ticked, the source and/or destination drive must appear as a removable drive to WinRAR. Why exactly, I don't know. You said you have 2 SATA...

You don't seem to have mentioned which program you're using for the extraction. Is it up-to-date? (latest version) Are you just right clicking the rar and picking extract off the context menu or are you acually opening said extraction program and extracting within it?

Well, I think it's neater (and more logical!) if they're on the same drive but I guess it doesn't really matter. Just don't forget you've got things on both drives. If you wipe Disk 0, your machine won't boot - even though the OS is on Disk 1 :) I don't know why it didn't get deleted, I...

I: and J: are on the same drive - 'Disk 0' If you wanted the (what I assume is the Windows 7) 'System Reserved' partition on the same drive as C:, you probably should have swapped Disk 0's SATA port with that of Disk 1 when you installed Windows..