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sorted...simply reinstalled my old 840 (unplugged the 2x EVO's and set RAID to AHCI) and was back to where I was before RAID and currently backing up to USB drive :) I will then format the drive ready for use with my RAID
@ whs - I appreciate what you say... but trust me I have tried SSD's on IDE and AHCI and there is MASSIVE difference in performance between the two, once you install the Intel AHCI driver in windows (replacing the MS Ahci driver) its even quicker again, windows boots much quicker for me in both cases...again when I installed my RAID then installed the Intel RAID driver - if your running SSD's from 2007 then they are probably low performance SSD's and dont compare to SSD's of today, ive had a few SSD's and tried and benched them all in IDE and AHCI and AHCI outperforms IDE in every aspect, again with RAID the difference is even better...ive shaved my boot time down from 16 seconds to just 10 seconds (12 seconds if you include the RAID BIOS access screen that appears and waits 2 seconds for you too press CTRL+I which doesnt appear on non-raid setups...so isnt fair to include when benching)
1 x SSD with AHCI = 16 secs from pwr button to desktop
2 x SSD with RAID = 10 secs from pwr button to desktop
Applications are loading (and writing) much quicker than before with the single SSD, it is noticably different, only issue is I can not upgrade firmware online with Samsung Magician as it can not see the SSD's, but I can do this using a caddy. You may see it as negligable...others like me wont, I would rather pair my drives and boost speed than have them run side-by-side...I backup twice per week so if one fails I simply replace and restore ...or restore files to one drive.
thanks everyone who has helped :)
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