Recent content by Mr Matt

I'm using a Gigabyte H77m-D3H in a rebuild. Never had any problems with this board for the last 4 years. Just put the motherboard in a new HTPC case with a new PSU. I noticed that my SSD was running really slow so I went into the BIOS setup and selected "Use Optimum settings", saved and...

I'll see how they perform when being setup by the MB RAID controller. It may be the cause of all the resyncing but I I think it's because the WIn7 RAID copies the data to the primary drive first and then copies from the primary drive to the secondary drive afterwards. If I get the same issue...

Yep, Western Digital Greens. :) The WD site claims that they are OK to use in RAID1: http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/996/session/L2F2LzEvdGltZS8xNDI1MzYxMTMzL3NpZC81Z29ZOW1nbQ%3D%3D

I have 2x 4GB HDDs setup as a mirrored drive in Windows7. The issue I have is that whenever I copy any data to the drive it takes ages to resync, I estimate that it copies the new data at about 7MB/s however it also has to read the rest of the whole drive during the resync which takes about 12...

So thanks for all your help (!) and here's what happened in the end; I installed win7 64 bit onto a partition of the original win7 32 bit OS drive so I could dual boot. I could still see and use the RAID in the original OS but the option to remove the disk under Disk Management(as per...

OK, another question, instead of using Win7 RAID on my new build, can I now break the Mirror and it will give me 2 independent normal drives each containing the same data? If so, how do I do this in my old OS config without losing any data? I'm now thinking of just manually backing up all of...

Quick update, I installed the new motherboard and CPU and the old win7 32bit OS boots up fine so I can still access the RAID1 drives at this time. This means I am able to change any of the settings before migrating to the new OS if needed. Is there anything I can do now to make it easier to...

I lost my motherboard so I'm going to use this opportunity to upgrade from Win7 32bit to Win7 64bit. I will be upgrading the motherboard and the CPU but keeping the original OS SSD drive. My problem is that I was using 2x 3GB HDDs as data storage and they were configured as a mirrored drive by...

I am in the middle of building a gaming PC but I am stuck at the decision of which CPU and motherboard will work best with what I already have. I already have the following being used with an old CPU, motherboard and RAM which works great for some games in 1080p but it is bottlenecking other...