hoani Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 Hi,I ordered a HDD caddy for my ODD slot and a mSATA 512GB SSD (SanDisk) and installed them in my Clevo 170EM along my 1TB HDD. I added 2x500GB HDDs I have in my collection to set a RAID0. I want to share with you my experiments.I encountered difficulties migrating my existing 2.5" SSD system drive to the mSATA... system won't boot or boot but with the mouse/keyboard/usb ports not functionning at all :/ My last try was a success : low level disk copy using dd under linux, partition resizing using gparted, boot repair mode with a Win 7 iso and repair mode, command line and send those commands :bcdedit /export C:BCD_Backupc:cd bootattrib bcd -s -h -rren c:ootcd bcd.oldbootrec /RebuildBcdThe key to success was to remove the previous 2.5" SSD drive before trying to repair anything...After that I added the ODD HDD drive bay and added my two 500GB HDD to set a RAID 0.I set the RAID mod in the bios and access it during boot using Ctrl-I. Setting up a RAID 0 was really easy. Booting with windows without any additionnal modification was not :(Had to revert to AHCI, and change the "Start" value of the following keys to 0 :[FONT=monospace]HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetServicesmsahciHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetServicesiaStorVHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetServicesiaStor[/FONT]After that I rebooted to bios, set to raid mode and booted to Windows successfully.The only remaining problem is that I can't access windows F8 repair mode anymore...Now my system is powered by a 512GB mSATA SSD (wired on a SATA2 port), a 1TB 2x500GB RAID 0 for my games (faster loading) and 1 TB for my data.Here are the CrystalDiskMark results :1. mSATA / 2. RAID 0 / 3. 1TB[ATTACH=CONFIG]14817[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]14818[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]14819[/ATTACH]I ordered 2x 2TB HDD to set a 4GB RAID... leading to a 5.5 TB laptop :) just enought to install all my 1100+ steam games ;) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoani Posted May 25, 2015 Author Share Posted May 25, 2015 Hi, I finally ordered and received my two M9 Spinpoint 2TB 2.5" HDD and installed them into the two available SATA3 slots in my P170EM. Now my laptop has 5.5TB of space available ! cooool. Moreover, I can do 230MB+ sequential read/write performance ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoani Posted May 25, 2015 Author Share Posted May 25, 2015 Strange... my 1TB HDD in the SATA2 slot (using a ODD-HDD caddy) has slightly more efficient performances : Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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