bignadad wrote:
Sorry i lost you. If you look on my images in post one you will see the RAID 0 at 954gb. Im not sure why the second drive in that array shows a size of 0. But the drives C: (OS) and F: (Media) are my (2) 950 512gb M.2 drives in RAID 0 and partitioned as those to drives. Here is the HWinfo of exactly what i have
So with that info is your advice still the same as in post 2? Clone my os partition from RAID 0, remove the 2nd m.2 (currently named media). restore that image to the m.2 still installed, then after it boots install my new 1tb m.2?
I do a lot of work in lightroom and premiere on this laptop. So would that justify the need for that 20% increase?
So yes you could use the increased write speed then go with the 2 1 TB SSD in RAID 0.
I'm not really sure how Asus set up the original Raid 0 with your 2 512GB SSD but basically, the procedure is the same create a complete Image of your current RAID Volume. Remove your 2x 512gb SSD and install the 2 1 TB SSD then restore that Image.
On a desktop board, we would set up the 2 1TB SSD in RAID 0 in the BIOS. No then on my G752VY which was in raid mode on 1 256gb SSD I never saw the RAID set up nor did I see anything in the BIOS about Raid 0 set up. Since you have 2 drive in RAId 0 already it should be set up already but I'm not sure at all and you windows disk manager doesn't make sense to me either as your 2 512gb in raid 0 should be one volume of 1TB
However if when you restore the volume if it all goes on only 1 of the 1tb SSD all you would have to do is install the IRST full version and then RAID 0 the 2 1tb ssd in windows with the IRST software which is what I would do!! also you could create the RAID 0 with windows storage manager I don't know anything about that so my advice would be that we know IRST is reliable and top of the line. We also know that Windows especially windows 10 can really screw things up. Should you want to use windows storage manager you'll have to inform yourself about using it.
I think we might be on the same page now hopefully I have answered your questions
Your 2 512gb SSD could be sold or installed in family members or friends computers that are not quite so demanding in storage space and write speed
Another thing you might take into account is that M.2 SSD doesn't really come into there own until they are writing multiple threads not sure if your software is capable of writing in multiple strings or threads at the same time?
We have to remember that Benchmark programs and real-world performance and really different things. For instance, my G75VW with 2.5 SATA SSD benched at close to 500mbs 300mbs and booted in about 20 seconds. My G752 with M.2 960 pro benchmarks at 2900mbs 1900mbs and boots in about 20 seconds they both are running the same software and well the G75 was on 8.1 and g752 is 10 but my point it booting is a single thread process on both OS Systems I just mention this to get you thinking about what you really want to do and what the best way to go is
G752VY-DH72 Win 10 Pro
512 GB M.2 Samsung 960 Pro
1 TB Samsung 850 pro 2.5 format
980m GTX 4 GB
32GB DDR 4 Standard RAM
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