Will this card allow me to configure SSD on motherboard for OS and controll a pair of stripped drives and mirror them?
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Hi James, The controller does not affect any of the drives you connect to the motherboard whether SSD or hard drive. You connect up to 4 drives directly to the controller and you can stripe or raid them. If you already have a stripe set on the mother board you can not reconnect it to the controller it will reinitialize them. It sounds like you have 4 drives the best and most efficient thing to do is to create a RAID 5. You will need to back up any existing data.... Hope this helps. joe
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You can use the motherboard's onboard controller for booting the OS. This is how I've set up my controller. Only data is stored on the RAID. As for the second part, if you have 2 drives, they can be either striped (RAID0) OR striped (RAID1). If you have more drives, you can configure it in more ways. I use 4 3TB drives in a RAID10 (stripe and mirroring) configuration.
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Yes. You might want to read up on this card a bit. I bought one for my wife's puter because the aging x48 motherboard therein, died rather suddenly. Its been a decent card running her Brand new(er) 240GB Intel 530 series SSD in such a configuration, with no issues to speak of. Seems a decent card for the money.
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Right now I have a mirrored array on this PCI RAID SATA card with two 2 TB SATA hard drives. I am booting my Windows 7 Pro machine on a separate SATA controller on my motherboard from an SSD drive.
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Will Samsung Magician software work with Samsung SSD 850 EVO installed into this enclosure?
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Depends upon your OS. Most new OS can handle it. You also need a certain sort of connector to a motherboard that handles the SATA spec.
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It should, yes.I almost got PCI-E SSD for boot-drive, but then ended up getting a really good deal on an OCZ SSD. I recommend either an OCZ SSD, or a Samsung SSD if you can't get a hold of the ASUS or OCZ PCI-E SSD.Obviously PCI-E SSD > SSD (SATA). TL;DR - yes, it should. However, I haven't done it.
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If the slot you have is for "mSATA" then this card will work. If it has what is called a "M.2" slot then that requires a different type of SSD card since the connector size is different. Best to refer to your motherboard manual just to be sure since not all motherboards have support for these.
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Yes, as I have three sets of SSD in raid 0 with three OS. The only thing is that the cables are not that long.
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I have made several cloned drives from hdd's to new ssd's, works great with Macrium Reflect (free).
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Potentially, yes, but maybe not. Depends on a few things including your BIOS. I have an older motherboard (nVidia 750i) and my mobo did NOT recognize this drive. From what I've read, I believe your bios needs to have AHCI capability to recognize this drive. From a SATA standpoint it should be entirely backwards compatible, but do your homework ahead of time just to be sure. Thankfully Amazon is great for returns and I was able to order a Sata II Crucial SSD. Granted, my mobo still didn't recognize the drive, but installing a cheap Sata III add-on card did the trick. Note: The Sata III add-on card still would NOT allow my older motherboard to see the Samsung Evo 840. Potentially, yes, but maybe not. Depends on a few things including your BIOS. I have an older motherboard (nVidia 750i) and my mobo did NOT recognize this drive. From what I've read, I believe your bios needs to have AHCI capability to recognize this drive. From a SATA standpoint it should be entirely backwards compatible, but do your homework ahead of time just to be sure. Thankfully Amazon is great for returns and I was able to order a Sata II Crucial SSD. Granted, my mobo still didn't recognize the drive, but installing a cheap Sata III add-on card did the trick. Note: The Sata III... » Read More Potentially, yes, but maybe not. Depends on a few things including your BIOS. I have an older motherboard (nVidia 750i) and my mobo did NOT recognize this drive. From what I've read, I believe your bios needs to have AHCI capability to recognize this drive. From a SATA standpoint it should be entirely backwards compatible, but do your homework ahead of time just to be sure. Thankfully Amazon is great for returns and I was able to order a Sata II Crucial SSD. Granted, my mobo still didn't recognize the drive, but installing a cheap Sata III add-on card did the trick. Note: The Sata III add-on card still would NOT allow my older motherboard to see the Samsung Evo 840. « Show Less
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No. This card has no RAID functionality. You need to find a card that offers RAID 1, which is drive mirroring, to do what you're looking to do.
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You should be fine. The target drive has to be SATA, but the source drive will be read by the controller on the mobo. The supplied cord will not plug into the old drive, so you won't be able to use it to interface the old drive later.
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Yes. I bought a new laptop with Win8 and used it to swap the mechanical drive for my SSD drive.
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Yes. But, this isn't a UEFI card. This means you need to configure your bios to allow this if you are running a UEFI computer (I think any computer you buy today with Win 8+ is UEFI).
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Yes, but I'd be more concerned about why your motherboard's SATA ports no longer work. This card connects through a slot on the motherboard, and if your motherboard has problems, there may be problems in connecting this card as well.
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Yes, I have two internal drives running off this card, paired in a RAID 1, set up through Win 7. If your motherboard and OS supports RAID, it's not a problem.
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Yes, SD in drive bay is OK. There is also an mSATA connector on the mother board that can be used for SSD.
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You can swap it out for a SSD, but just make sure you have a copy of all the drivers and some back-up discs of the OS.