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Raid and AHCI possible?

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  • NAS / RAID
  • Storage
  • Hard Drives
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May 14, 2014 8:46:24 AM

I have 2 hard drives running in Raid 0 and a separate one I want to use for Hackintoshing, can I put the individual one on AHCI without having to lose RAID and my data?

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a c 99 G Storage
May 14, 2014 8:54:15 AM

Leave your SATA ports set to RAID in the BIOS, you just don't set up the 3rd drive in RAID, since it's not!

RAID is a version of ACHI, or visa-versa.

If you don't set up a(ny) drives in RAID, they won't be RAID'd.

I used to have 2 SSD's in RAID 0 for OS, and then had 2 HDD for Data/Media and BackUps, each separate, so the OS "saw" 3 drives (C:=OS, D:=Data & Media, E:=BackUp Drive).
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May 14, 2014 8:56:54 AM

I also had my machine initially set up as RAID 0 for the two 256 GB SSD's and RAID 1 for the 2 TB SSHDs. After 2 months killed the arrays and used as separate drives..... wasn't seeing any speed benefit and single drives less hassles.
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May 14, 2014 10:13:14 AM

I am trying to install Mavericks onto my PC, and the instructions says I need AHCI, but I've got 3 HDD's (One for OS X and the other 2 are RAID for windows) so the one that isn't in the raid array will work anyways?
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May 14, 2014 11:54:51 AM

Also I can't take RAID 0 away or I lose my Windows and files.
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May 15, 2014 7:08:19 AM

Anybody?
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a c 78 G Storage
May 15, 2014 4:25:44 PM

Add a SATA 6GB card to your system for the Single drive
http://www.amazon.com/eSATA-configurable-support-Multip...
or any other SATA 6Gb card like
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA1N8...
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May 16, 2014 8:21:56 PM

Thanks for the help guys, I tried Hackintosh and it completely failed with AMD, screwing up my bootloader, etc, so I am done on that, thanks so much for the help though!
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