How to Raid my HDD with my SDD using intel RST

Ordinarytom

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Hi, okay so im a massive noob when it comes to RAID and have no clue what the numbers mean on the end like raid 0 raid 1... etc


Im having no luck getting my SSD to speed up my HDD through RAID.

When i select PCH control mode - RAID XHD in the cmos.

Then save n restart computer... it goes to the intel rst screen and says that both my SSD and HDD are non-raid drives.

How the hell do i make them RAID... i thought thats what the Intel RST was for to make them RAID.

So basically i need a noob guide on how to turn both my 64gb SSD and 150GB HDD into raid and using the Intel RST to speed my HDD up via my SSD.

Any help? (why would they make something thats so common, so difficult to find information and step by step guides on. well annoying)
 
press ctrl and i at start up/splash screen and make them a raid array

then in irst console you select your hdd to accelerate/cache using your ssd
 
cant you click on them and make them part of the raid? its been a while since ive used caching/raid so i cant remember exactly but i think it can be done,maybe someone else can add further
 
and whenever i enable - raid xhd - im unable to start windows because of missing ntlrd , so basically messes with my boot device and makes my hdd the boot priority when it doesnt have windows installed on it.only my ssd has windows on it.
 
I dont think you can make a raid set from an SSD and HDD drive, you can only use the SSD drive as a cache drive to speed up your HDD drive useing RST.
in which case you would need window installed on your HDD.

Raid sets need to be 2 or more identical drives.
 
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Thankyou lols you dont realise how long its took me to get a straight answer. So basically if i install my windows 7 on my hdd aswell then i will be able to use RST?.

And how could i put windows 7 on the hdd? insert a windows 7 disc , choose the hdd drive and install?
 
soundesciple said:
Raid sets need to be 2 or more identical drives.
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Close. RAID needs drives of the same speed, 7200rpm, 10k, 15k etc.
Capacities can be whatever you like, but it will only use the capacity of the smallest disk. If all the disks in an array have been replaced with larger capacity ones, most good RAID controllers will let you expand the array to fill that capacity.

Tom, what motherboard do you have?
 
gigabyte have an rst program that sets it all up for you!!!!!

you need to set to raid for caching to work,and you need to install windows on the mechanical hdd then cache it/accelerate it with the ssd
 
wazza300 said:
gigabyte have an rst program that sets it all up for you!!!!!

you need to set to raid for caching to work,and you need to install windows on the mechanical hdd then cache it/accelerate it with the ssd
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yes the gigabyte board does lol thats why i was asking about it in the first place. And i couldnt get anywhere with the process because a. i cant set them to RAID as there different speeds. and b. I need to install windows 7 on my hdd before i can accelerate it with my ssd.
 
so can i get an overall confirmation that for me to use rst. i only need to install windows 7 on my hdd. then the process to get rst working
 
Ordinarytom said:
so can i get an overall confirmation that for me to use rst. i only need to install windows 7 on my hdd. then the process to get rst working
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Yes. Specific steps are these:

1. Make sure your sata mode is set to raid in the BIOS (no need to fiddle in the bios raid settings tho)
2. Install Windows on the mechanical HD you are going to accelerate.
3. Install all your drivers etc and RST
4. Use the RST control panel in windows to select the drive you want to accelerate, the SSD you want to use as cache and how many GB's of the SSD you wish to use.
5. After the reboot you will notice that at the BIOS RAID config screen that RST will have set up an accelerated Raid 0. In Windows your SSD will no longer be viewable/useable directly (unless you didn't use all of it to cache).

What I didn't mention above is that it's best to make sure that the only one HD is connected to the MB when installing Windows. Connect up the SSD and any other HD's after Windows is installed. This is because Windows may randomly put system/boot files on the SSD which will then break when you turn it into cache (I learned this the hard way :( )
 
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Clav said:
What I didn't mention above is that it's best to make sure that the only one HD is connected to the MB when installing Windows. Connect up the SSD and any other HD's after Windows is installed. This is because Windows may randomly put system/boot files on the SSD which will then break when you turn it into cache (I learned this the hard way :( )
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Clav thank you for this. I couldnt work out why my bootmgr was missing but now I know :rolleyes:

Off to reinstall win7 with ssd pulled out this time :)

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