Proper Way to Set Up SSD and HDD Raid0 on P965 Platinum

I have a P965 Platinum board in my system. I would like to install Windows 7 on a new Intel SSD, keeping the SSD for OS and programs and a separate RAID0 for storage. How do I do this using the ICH8R? I'm confused on what I have to do in the BIOS vs. using the Intel Matrix Storage Manager. Do I connect all three disks before OS installation and then enter into RAID setup with ctrl+I, only selecting the HDDs for the RAID? Is the SSD then seen as a non-RAID drive onto which I can install the OS?
Thanks, in advance, for any help.

The first thing you need to do is to actually set the Intel ICH8R Controller to RAID Mode in BIOS Setup (Integrated Peripherals -> On-Chip ATA Devices -> Configure SATA#1 as ....).
After that is done and all the drives are hooked up, you can access the RAID Configuration Menu and select the disks that are supposed to be part of the Array. If you do only select your hard drives, you SSD will simply be not part of the RAID Volume and will be handled as a single non-RAID disk.

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I am new to all of this Adobe setups and learning computer hardware. So please go easy on me.
First question. What would be the best way to setup my computer for the best performance when using After Effects and Premiere at the same time? I really don't understand this. What's the best options here when I only have 16 GB of RAM?
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Setting up a new SSD and HDD on iMac with separate libraries (itunes & aperture)

Hello.
I'm having a major problem with my iMac (July 2010 27" 2.8ghz). I recently operated on this guy and installed a 2TB HDD and a 256GB SSD. I backed up my previous setup using CCC onto a separate external HDD. I installed a "fresh" version of OSX Mountain Lion onto the SSD and used Migration Assitant to transfer my applications and user settings. I then copied over the itunes folder and photos library folder over to the HDD. However, I cannot access the libraries of either using the SSD. I hold option down while opening either Aperture or Itunes and I am not allowed to select either of the libraries. Infact the iTunes one is grayed out and the folder holding the Aperture Library is locked (Red circle with a white dash).
Ultimately what I want to do is have the SSD provide the system and the applications and have my music, videos, and photos on the HDD. I have been reading all sorts of boards but I can't get anything to work. I'll completely start from scratch if needed.
BTW the SSD is so fast on this machine.
Thanks in advance for all of your help.
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The original folders for iTunes and Aperture Photo Library were marked with special Access Control List permissions. CCC picked these up during the duplication process to the HDD. When you put them back on the SSD, you likely used Finder, which either corrupted these settings or omitted them entirely. Now, iTunes and Aperture expect these ACL settings and block you without them.
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Reboot, holding down the option key. You will see the SSD, the HDD, and probably two 10.8 recovery partitions. Pick either recovery partition.
Once you are in Recovery, launch the Terminal from the Utility menu.
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I have a 240GB SSD as my main drive and it had all of my data on it.
Recently I installed the OWC data doubler and put a 500GB HDD in place of the superdrive.
Since then, I copied my "home" folder (under /Users) to the new 500GB HDD.
After this I went into user settings and set the path to the new drive, so new files created will be stored on the HDD instead of the SSD now.
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Right now I have TWO external drives to back up my data.
Drive 1: 2TB
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This drive (1) has been backing up my system since the beginning, Before my "home" folder was moved.
Drive 2: 1TB
Partitioned into two separate 500GB sections.
TM is set up to back up the data on the drive (HDD - which there has been no data to back up as of now)
The other partition is for CCC, which also has not been used yet because there is no data on the HDD (not SSD).
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Since I moved my "home" folder (or directory, whatever) to the new 500GB HDD, and changed the settings to have all "data" be stored on that drive, will TM back it up as if it were all still on my main SSD?
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My second external drive has time machine on it for the data on the HDD, but the "home" directory or folder is now stored on the drive and if TM will back it up as if it were a single drive, then TM on the second external drive becomes pointless. (Correct?)
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Please tell me if I left out any details. I know its a lengthy description!
Thanks for taking the time to read and respond.
Greatly appreciated!

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Portege R30 won't boot from SSD after upgrade to SSD and HDD under CSM mode

Hi
I upgraded my Portege R30-ASMBN22 to SSD (Crucial M550) and replace the optical drive by the original HDD with caddy.
In order to install Windows 7, I change the BIOS to CSM mode. But now the system won't boot automatically from the SSD. It only boot from HDD which is in the ODD spot.
I could press F12 while turning on my laptop, and bring up the boot manual. Here I can see my SSD and I can boot from it correctly. However, if I don't press F12 when it starts. It will always try to boot from HDD.
In the boot order in the BIOS, I only see HDD/SSD, USB Memory, ODD .... It doesn't give me the option to choose between SSD and HDD. Is there any other way to change the boot order among HDD and SSD?
Thanks,
Louis

Hi,
I did the same operation to my Portege R30-A-17C, and have the same problem, is there any way to boot without pushing F12 every time.
Thanks,
Pablo

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8gb of ram. My hard drive died in my mac and I decided to replace it with an SSD and installed an HDD in the optical bay following Ifixit instructions. I booted into internet recovery and installed Mountain Lion (as it would not let me do a straight Yosemite install from a flash drive I had made on my gf's macbook, because it couldn't authenticate). After booting up and declining the usual iCloud prompts, I rebooted and installed Yosemite from the USB. It took a while, but eventually i booted up.
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Etrecheck report if it helps:
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Running super slow randomly with a newly installed SSD and HDD. Home Folder is on the HDD.
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How do I install bootcamp so I half both my ssd and hdd?

How do I install bootcamp so I half both my ssd and hdd for windows and lion?

Sorry about that one. There are THREE not just two, about SSDs, and the iMac SSD + hdd one.... well that one was private (not sure why).
Most questions have been asked/answered, multiple more than once, times, and therefore: public bookmarks and search please. (some gets asked almost daily, a few multiple times in one DAY of all things).
I'd like to see pdf guide and error messages, faq and how to articles re-written, updated, and checked for errors.
www.apple.com/support/bootcamp is where I usually send people to seek out the pdf and do some readiing and backups. you will need backup no matter what.
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Can I make a bootcamp Partition on the HDD on an iMac 21.5" with SSD and HDD

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In the manual of the boot camp it says that if you have more than one internal hard drive and you wanna put bootcamp on one that isn't the first, you have to remove the other hard drives. That would be hard cause you can't open the iMac easily. And especially not without loosing guarantee.
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That article is misleading to an extent and applied to the workstations with 4 internal drives and easy to access - and misleading as to why other drives had to be removed etc.
As for warranty, it use to be a customer upgraded part to swap out hard drives. All that is needed to disconnect the data cable going to the drive.

Can I install SSD and HDD on mac mini server?

hi. I want to buy a new mac mini server with two hdd. can I replace one hdd on my ssd and leave second hdd for files? And can I install OSX on my ssd and windows on my second hdd (divide it into 2 parts... for bootcamp and file storage)? thanks

AGStudio.pro
as I know, it is impossibe to install ssd and hdd in this model
Thats incorrect, who told you that?    Ive installed a second 7mm drive in several Mac Minis and own 2 myself. Typing on same now.
(you can put in a second 9.5mm drive rather than a 7mm drive, however it takes nimble fingers unless you want to completely remove the dual drive caddy from inside the mac Mini)
see youtube video on installing second drive in the Mini
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnrhin2ed8E
AGStudio.pro
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Then you dont need the mac mini server.    All you need is a standard mac mini.
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Was hoping to get some advice on my pendIng upgrade to a new HD and SSD in my mid-2010 13" MacBook Pro. I'm very confident in my installation abilities but I'm a novice when it comes to moving software and programs.
Here's the set-up ill be working with:
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I want to make sure I'm moving the right stuff over to the SSD so that I can take full advantage of it. I also dont want excess crap on the 750 especially since I'll have a bootable copy on my old drive.
What should I put on the SSD? How should I get it there? If I do a clean install of lion on the SSD do I just migrate the applications using the migration assistant from my original HDD and then migrate whatever's left onto the new HDD?
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Thanks

When you upgrade it will use your existing user data including bookmarks, passwords, cookies and browsing history.
I have been using Firefox Sync since it was in an early development stage about 2 years ago. I have gone through a few upgrades to Firefox since then with no problems during the upgrades. I recommend going to Firefox 4 first because Firefox Sync is built into it so there will be no need to install the add-on.
If required you can downgrade to Firefox 3.6.16

Portege R30 won't boot from SSD after upgrade to SSD and HDD

Hi
I upgraded my Portege R30-A to add a second SSD (Crucial M550) replacing the optical drive with the new SSD with caddy.
But now the system won't boot automatically from the original SSD.
I could press F12 while turning on my laptop, and bring up the boot manual. Here I can see my original SSD and I can boot from it correctly.
In the boot order in the BIOS, I only see HDD/SSD, USB Memory, ODD .... It doesn't give me the option to choose between SSDs.
Anyway when I boot in this way I get blue screens after a while in win7.
I have tried to instal a HDD as the second disc instead os SSD and the resut is the same.
Is there anything I can do to solve this, now I have to use the second disc as an external USB disc.
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I have experienced the same problem. (I don't know why my previous reply got deleted.)
The problem all relates to the CSM mode of Toshiba BIOS.
The solution is adding a boot partition (FAT32) on the drive that is in the original ODD spot.
Use a Windows 8 Installer (on a USB drive) to build a boot sector on that partition and direct it to the SSD where Windows 7 is installed. Then after you have done all of this, switch back to UEFI mode.
The system should be able to boot Windows 7 properly from the SSD in UEFI mode.

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I just noticed on the original Amazon page where I bought the computer that the rpm of each 500GB disk is 7200. Considering they are in a RAID0 format, wouldn't I then be sacrificing speed going to one 1TB 7200rpm drive?
Maybe the decrease in speed for the data/media HDD would be more than compensated by having the OS and all software run off an SSD drive, though...
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The SSD + HDD will be much better overall. For media, does it really MATTER how fast it is? In all honesty, not really. The SSD makes everything else snappy, so what if you have to wait an extra 10 seconds when you copy a movie over and stuff? I wouldn't care, overall the laptop will FEEL much faster, and it generally will be.
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Installation on SSD and HDD

Hi
I have been attempting to install Arch 64bit on my computer which has a 60Gb SSD and a 1Tb HDD. It has 8Gb RAM. I wish to set up the partitions as follows:
SSD:
Partition 1 - mountpoint: /boot - size: ~100 Mb
Partition 2 - mountpoint: / - size: ~The rest
HDD:
Partition 1 - mountpoint: /home - size: All except swap
Partition 2 - Used as swap space - size: 8 Gb
However, I can't find out how to do this. During the install I can manage to partition the drives as desired, but when it comes to setting the mountpoints I can't see where to do this.
Could someone walk me through how to do this? If not, would it be possible to install everything to the HDD and later (post-install) move the /boot and / to the SSD?
Thanks
Last edited by sheomualjy (2011-12-23 09:11:11)

partition the drives before booting up the arch installer. fire up ubuntu or any other graphical enviroment and partition the drives using gparted.
gpt as default partition table for both drives
1mb partition on the ssd as bios_grub (i don't know if you need this but i came from fedora and this was a requirement to install))
the rest as / (ext4, btrfs)
now partition the hdd as you like
boot into the arch installer and set the mountpoints for your partitions
as areference my /etc/fstab :
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid 0 0
UUID=59fefc2d-31cb-4464-87f3-2e19c1ada44b /home ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1
UUID=677861be-cd67-4d29-9edb-8591a447e65a swap swap defaults 0 0
UUID=a9781a19-6925-467e-8d78-1e0cc0909210 / ext4 defaults,noatime,discard 0 1
tmpfs /var/log tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=755 0 0
tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime 0 0
tmpfs /var/run tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=755 0 0
tmpfs /var/lock tmpfs defaults,noatime 0 0
tmpfs /home/markus/.thumbnails tmpfs defaults,noatime 0 0
tmpfs /home/markus/.cache tmpfs defaults,noatime 0 0
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Proper way to set up an InDesign document for performance?

Hello there,
I'm wondering if I am using the product wrong, because I am having a heck of a time with the performance of my documents grinding my computer to a halt.
I'm starting a new project, it's a 92 page book. On each page will be one or two *hi-res* pieces of art, at around 450dpi. Multiply this by 92, and you get something big. In the past I have simply placed the artwork which creates a link back to the original, and update the original as needed. However the last time I did this, when I got to like page 22, the InDesign document was no longer usable, it just killed the PC (a modern one).
In that case I was placing Adobe Illustrator .ai files. Maybe that was the reason? In this case, I need to place PSD files.
So my questions are a) what's the best way to place the files and b) what format should I place the PSDs? I need to export this in PDF form for print.
Thanks for any help! It's been ages since I've done print work.

Well, there a couple of vague statements in your question, but I am going to take a quick stab at it before we get into that.
Yes, when you drop an image (photo, illustration, etc.), into an InDesign file it creates a link and you can edit the original as needed and it will be updated in the InDesign file.
First make sure you're updating the files one at a time. Select the element you want to "fix", click Edit> Edit Original and make your changes. Save the original file, then check in with the InDesign file and see that the image has updated, then move onto the next.
Second you can set up these linked files to display within InDesign as low-res versions to keep your system running faster. Give that a try also. You can set it up from View > Display Performance or by Right clicking on the image and selecting Display Performance > Fast Display.
As for the vague statements, because others will ask.
What version of InDesign?
What type of system specifically? Processor, Ram, Video Card, Video Ram, etc.
What is it doing to your system? Locks, crashes, explodes into pieces?
p.s.
Why 450 dpi files?
What type of files? Tiff, PDF, JPEG, etc?

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I have a macbook pro 15 inch mid 2012 (not retina) with Mountain Lion and Bootcamp Windows 7 Ultimate both stored on main bay SSD. I replaced my superdrive with the HDD and have an external superdrive. Was wondering how to Symbolic Link both OS from SSD to HDD. SSD Intel 520 180 GB is filling up fast but HDD has plenty of room 750 GB. Also i have norton on Winows 7 patition do i now need norton for osx as well? Dont want to lose the speed of SSD but am about to give up and put HDD back into main bay. Any ideas would be great Thank you -)

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Second, as for your CD-ROM I am providing you with the HP Support document: Replacing the CD/DVD Drive in HP TouchSmart 300-1000 Series Desktop PCs, which again will walk you through the process of changing out your CD-ROM. If you require the Optical disk drive mounting cage assembly the part number is 575663-001 and again can be obtained from The HP Parts Store.
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