Removing RAID1 on SSDs

katman

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Feb 19, 2012
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So my new build has a SSD RAID1.
Yes I hear everyone thinks that
it's wrong and/or a waste.

It does have TRIM ON and does
not show up in defrag list.

Is it still bad to run this RAID1?


Ok, So next question....

What's the best way to split the drives?

Do I switch from raid to AHCI?

or

Do I leave RAID ( It is AHCI ) and
change the drive to non-raid disk?


Thanks!

 

RealBeast

Titan
Moderator
While somewhat painful, I would just do a Windows re-installation and disable the raid, going to AHCI in the bios. Just image your drive periodically to a HDD partition, and make a system repair disk and you will be able to recover quickly if you do have a problem in the future.

TRIM doesn't work on raided drives yet and the indications are that Intel will support raid 0 initially when they do include it.