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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: foots on February 09, 2012, 05:54:59 pm

Title: GA-Z68XP-UD3 & SSDs & RAID
Post by: foots on February 09, 2012, 05:54:59 pm

I am considering building a new PC around the GA-Z68XP-UD3 & Win 7 64bit. 

I'd like to use an SSD for boot/apps and pair of large drives in RAID 1 for data.

Has any one done this?  Any thoughts or advice would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Title: Re: GA-Z68XP-UD3 & SSDs & RAID
Post by: Rolo42 on February 10, 2012, 08:08:39 am

My wife and I have UD4s...same thing.

We have 128GB Crucial m4 SSDs with 64GB for Intel SRT caching and the rest for Windows + a few apps.

I install most programs to the HDD (mine is 2TB, hers is 2x1.5TB RAID1) and moved \Users to it as well (used Audit mode during install).

Its fantastic; I wouldn't go any other way (until SSDs get larger and price/GB gets smaller anyway).

Title: Re: GA-Z68XP-UD3 & SSDs & RAID
Post by: Lsdmeasap on February 13, 2012, 08:02:48 am

RAID and single drives is fine and Rolo42 mentioned!   I do it as well, or often use a single drive in RAID mode, any non raid drive will be ran using AHCI commands and be a Non-Member in the RAID table listings.