- Mar 30, 2017
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I have bought two SSD SATA drives and now I am trying to figure out the best options for transferring data. My existing setup is two drives in RAID, two optical drives and a spare drive that I plan to remove. Currently that takes 5 of my 6 mobo SATA connnectors, but when I ditch the spare I'll empty one. I have lots of assumptions which may all be false,so that's why I'm here.
I am here because I'm concerned about to RAID or not to RAID, order of drive to mobo connction, and preserving the old RAID until data transfer is complete.
My plan is to make the SSDs my primary (or only) for window install, work, and games. Obviously my upgraded windows 10 installation is on the HDDs so I will need to move the window to the new drives.
Assumption #1: I should put both new SSD drives in RAID. If this is recommended (seems so from what I've read) then this is truly where my problem starts. If not then I suppose I just need to connect the two SSDs and call it good.
Assumption #2: Order of connections matter. So for my six SATA connectors I should have the SSD in ports 0 & 1, and optical in 4 & 5. If I keep my old HDD then they will go in the middle.
Assumption #3: If I move the mobo connectors for my two existing HDD which are in RAID, then I lose the array and the data is inaccessible.
Assumption #4: I've researched how to do a fresh install of win10 from my current but I think i need to have the existing windows install intact so the fresh install can verify the authenticity meaning I have to preserve the RAID.
So that's my conundrum. How should I best proceed.
Thanks!
I am here because I'm concerned about to RAID or not to RAID, order of drive to mobo connction, and preserving the old RAID until data transfer is complete.
My plan is to make the SSDs my primary (or only) for window install, work, and games. Obviously my upgraded windows 10 installation is on the HDDs so I will need to move the window to the new drives.
Assumption #1: I should put both new SSD drives in RAID. If this is recommended (seems so from what I've read) then this is truly where my problem starts. If not then I suppose I just need to connect the two SSDs and call it good.
Assumption #2: Order of connections matter. So for my six SATA connectors I should have the SSD in ports 0 & 1, and optical in 4 & 5. If I keep my old HDD then they will go in the middle.
Assumption #3: If I move the mobo connectors for my two existing HDD which are in RAID, then I lose the array and the data is inaccessible.
Assumption #4: I've researched how to do a fresh install of win10 from my current but I think i need to have the existing windows install intact so the fresh install can verify the authenticity meaning I have to preserve the RAID.
So that's my conundrum. How should I best proceed.
Thanks!
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