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upgrade DV6-6b19wm to 2 SSD's

post #1 of 9
12/12/12 at 4:50am
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009.JPG2012-12-12 07_17_25-Greenshot.pngHi. I got a DV6-6b19wm with a 120gb patriot pyro SE and I've been reading about guys taking out their dvd drive and replacing it with a hard drive caddy that fits into the dvd place. I found some adapters on amazon for 12-35$. They are for 12.5mm DVD drive. What I need to know before starting would i need to do any BIOS upgrades for my laptop to see the second drive? Also on my device manager i have the intel mobile express chipset SATA AHCI controller. Does that controller have raid natively? My son has a new HP sleekbook 14-b015dx with the new ultra low voltage i3, and his device manager shows INTEL mobile express chipset SATA RAID controller. Mine is under IDE/ATA/ATAPI controllers and his is under STORAGE CONTROLLERS. Does he have RAID simply because HP ships new sleekbooks with native RAID or is it because of his laptop having an IVY BRIDGE CPU? I know its an INTEL Controller so i'd say its because of the new gen CPU. Any help/advice or suggestions for the adapter, BIOS or controllers will greatly appreciated.

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post #2 of 9
12/12/12 at 8:02am
I doubt that HP would support RAID set up for the DV6 series. If you don't see an option in the current BIOS, chance is nil

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post #3 of 9
12/12/12 at 9:08am
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Well, I'm still going to install another SSD, I guess since I won't be RAIDING them I don't have to get another patriot SSD. Any options for software RAID by the way? And thanks for the reply.
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post #4 of 9
12/12/12 at 11:41am
You meant some sort of utilities to sync both drives? There is free Microsoft SyncToy app that does a good job to sync folders, files.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=15155

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post #5 of 9
12/13/12 at 2:42am
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Well I want to know if a software version of a RAID utility would give me performance boost like a hardware version would? I really don't want to just sync the 2 SSD's if I can't get a striping boost that RAID 0 would provide. If not I'll just use the 2 as separate drives. Then I don't have to worry about gb usage as much. Thanks, I'll let you know how it goes.
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post #6 of 9
12/13/12 at 4:19am
Performance boost with Raid 0 can be achieved with other ways (smart defrag, cache configuration ...). A fast drive is just as good,if not better than 2 so so drive in Raid 0 configuration, and it is more reliable in case of disk errors

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post #7 of 9
12/13/12 at 4:29am
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ok, thanks once again for your insight. ill keep you updated

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post #8 of 9
1/7/13 at 4:02am
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ok i just got the adapter and it fits just fine, i put a spare HDD in and it saw it without changing anything on my part. im currently waiting on a new patriot pyro se. ill keep you updated. thanks.

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post #9 of 9
1/7/13 at 6:54am
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