Deleted 100mb partition, mobo cant boot OR read HDD now... HELP!!

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    sounds good thanks for all the help!
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    @whs...RAID question.

    Now that newegg has a crazy sale on the crucial SSDs, I figured I buy 2 and put them in RAID 0 (is it going to be a noticeable speed increase?) to complement my RAID 1 3tb HDDs. MY question is, can I have 2 different RAID arrays? I honestly can't tell between an Intel, Marvell, and/or "JMB" controller on the mobo (I think my mobo has all 3). I have 6 SATA ports total and the drives should take up 4 leaving the remaining 2 for DVD drives. I have also heard that if not set up properly, the RAID arrays will cause instabilities and crashes AND DVD drives not being able to be used on some SATA ports. SO this time, I am going to ask the experts before opening up the case and screwing around. Thanks again!
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    flyguy5187 said:
    @whs...RAID question.

    Now that newegg has a crazy sale on the crucial SSDs, I figured I buy 2 and put them in RAID 0 (is it going to be a noticeable speed increase?) to complement my RAID 1 3tb HDDs. MY question is, can I have 2 different RAID arrays? I honestly can't tell between an Intel, Marvell, and/or "JMB" controller on the mobo (I think my mobo has all 3). I have 6 SATA ports total and the drives should take up 4 leaving the remaining 2 for DVD drives. I have also heard that if not set up properly, the RAID arrays will cause instabilities and crashes AND DVD drives not being able to be used on some SATA ports. SO this time, I am going to ask the experts before opening up the case and screwing around. Thanks again!
    Raid0 for SSDs does only make sense when you use the SSDs to move a lot of data in large blocks around.

    For the OS it is completely useless. The high performance of the OS on a SSD comes from the extremely fast access time. The OS, however, does not read or write a lot of data and that in 4K blocks. Thus the added data transfer speed of Raid does not buy you anything (or extremely little) for the OS.

    And in general you are right. Raid can cause all kinds of problems, especially for the OS.

    The day when we will be able to afford 500GB or 1TB SSDs and use those for showing large amounts of data around, I would revisit Raid0 - but not for the OS because of the peculiar data requirements of the OS.
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    again, thx for the insight!! Luckily they sold out before I was able to go home and place an order lol
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  5. whs
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    You are welcome.
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    ok I have tried to free up disk space on my SSD but was only able to free up a paltry 2 gb =/ am i missing something? I already adjusted restore pt config, and shouldnt have any old files to delete since it was a fresh install. I only have about 22gbs free on my 60gb SSD and from what I have been reading W7 Ultimate should only take about 25gbs right? Also, I was able to setup RAID with my 3tb HDDs with ctrl+I @ boot but not being seen in my computer folder. I just downloaded the drivers for RST and now Intel recognizes the array but still does not show. I have started "initializing" the array but only at 12% after 45min...is there any faster way?? thanks!
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  7. whs
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    Have you deleted the hiberfile and reduced the pagefile - each take the amount of space equal to you RAM. The hiberfile you delete with the powercfg -h off command and the pagefile you can reduce to 2GB. Here are the instructions from the help and support page:

    Go to Control Panel\System and Security\System
    In the left pane, click Advanced system settings. If you're prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
    On the Advanced tab, under Performance, click Settings.
    Click the Advanced tab, and then, under Virtual memory, click Change.
    Clear the Automatically manage paging file size for all drives check box.Under Drive [Volume Label], click the drive that contains the paging file you want to change
    Click Custom size, type a new size in megabytes in the Initial size (MB) or Maximum size (MB) box, click Set, and then click OK.
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    yes that worked out awesome thank you!! however since my last post the initialization process has only increased to 30%...y is it so slow? i have a high end quad core CPU i feel like i have a celeron chip...
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  9. whs
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    What exactly do you mean by "initialization process " - is that the time it takes to boot?
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    not sure if u can see my upload pic but it is an option in the Intel RST prgm
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