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Raid 5 o. Gs70

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Soo. I want to do some raid 5 storage on my 3 m.2 ssd's ... Apparently theblaptop doesen't support it. Idnthere any way (software or hardware) i can get it to work ?

Msi says its tw bios.. Is there any way to flash it with raid 5 support ?

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This is for a laptop?  If your motherboard doesn't support raid with the m.2 ports, then you would have to do it via software raid.  But you can't software raid your OS drive, for if that is one of the 3 you could only software raid the other 2.  Flashing your BIOS won't add physical support for raiding ports not connected to the raid controller.

 

It sounds like you are likely rather limited in your options here.

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This is for a laptop?  If your motherboard doesn't support raid with the m.2 ports, then you would have to do it via software raid.  But you can't software raid your OS drive, for if that is one of the 3 you could only software raid the other 2.  Flashing your BIOS won't add physical support for raiding ports not connected to the raid controller.

 

It sounds like you are likely rather limited in your options here.

the other option I have, is to use it in raid 0, then when windows 10 comes out, as im upgrading from 8.1, I would switch my 1tb hdd for one of those WD dual drives with a 128gb ssd in it (assuming it fits in the laptop wich im checking right now). id put the os on that ssd, long term storage and games on the 1tb, and then raid 5 the 3 ssd's for adobe illustrator and photoshop projects.

is that possible ?

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the other option I have, is to use it in raid 0, then when windows 10 comes out, as im upgrading from 8.1, I would switch my 1tb hdd for one of those WD dual drives with a 128gb ssd in it (assuming it fits in the laptop wich im checking right now). id put the os on that ssd, long term storage and games on the 1tb, and then raid 5 the 3 ssd's for adobe illustrator and photoshop projects.

is that possible ?

 

Potentially, but I have no idea if you will be able to fit that many drives in a laptop, haven't seen one that would hold that many myself.  The other issue you are going to run into is that I doubt most laptop raid controllers are able to do anything but raid 0 or 1.  I could easily be wrong though.  And software raid 5 is really not the best.  With SSD drives, you best option if you really want to go RAID, is to use RAID 0; and use a secondary disk (internal or external) as a regular backup location.  RAID 5 and 6 are extra hard on disks due to their heavy write penalty, so it will wear out your SSDs faster then normal.  Though most last so long now it may not be a real issue.

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Potentially, but I have no idea if you will be able to fit that many drives in a laptop, haven't seen one that would hold that many myself.  The other issue you are going to run into is that I doubt most laptop raid controllers are able to do anything but raid 0 or 1.  I could easily be wrong though.  And software raid 5 is really not the best.  With SSD drives, you best option if you really want to go RAID, is to use RAID 0; and use a secondary disk (internal or external) as a regular backup location.  RAID 5 and 6 are extra hard on disks due to their heavy write penalty, so it will wear out your SSDs faster then normal.  Though most last so long now it may not be a real issue.

the gs70 supports one 2,5'' drive up to 9.5mm   and 3 m.2 ssd's

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