Recent content by MattBirchall

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    RAID 1 with SSD(master)+HDD(mirror)?

    This may physically work with your RAID controller however you won't get good write performance (as pointed out by mavrovur) unless you have write caching enabled in the controller (or the OS/application). I would guess that the read performance would be good if the controller can spot the...
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    Moving Windows 8 to SSD without install media?

    If you have the upgrade media you should have the option to install the new copy of windows onto a different drive (i.e. the SSD) than the original install. The install process will check for _an_ install of Windows on the PC but it shouldn't insist on updating that installation of Windows.