A while back I upgraded my main hard drive to a Crucial M4 SSD and I've enjoyed the speed increase ever since. However, there has been one issue that has been bothering me a little bit that I never gave much attention to because I'd been content with my PC's performance. First, here are the specs of my build:
OS: Windows 7 Professional (Sp1) 64-bit
CPU: Intel i7 940
RAM: 12.0 GB
Graphics: 2xRadeon 4850
HD : Crucial M4 128GB
Here is a shot showing what is bothering me - hard drives showing up as ejectable usb devices:
When I try and install the Intel Rapid Storage Technology software from my MSI's website, I get this error:
[Update: after Changing the RAID mode from IDE to AHCI I was able to install the Intel Rapid Storage software, but it never recognized the M4 SSD, which goes along with the whole Marvell/Intel thing outlined below]
I really just want to confirm what I've come to understand from reading around the forums and other online sources and that is as follows:
My motherboard (Big Bang Xpower) uses the Intel Chipset for the 3Gb/s connectors while the 6Gb/s connectors use a Marvell chipset. As a result, if my SSD is connected to the 6Gb/s sata connectors I will not be able to install/run/ the Intel Rapid Storage Technology utility which explains why the drives are showing up in the USB devices that can be safely removed.
Additionally, I'd like to know whether my Bios looks to be set up properly, and whether I'd be better off using the 3Gb/s ports and using the Intel AHCI Controller, or if I should deal with the fact that my internal hard drives all show up as USB devices that can be ejected and stick with the 6Gb/s ports.
Unrelated Side Questions and Screen Shots:
Microsoft Teredo Tunneling Adapter warning on Device Manager Screenie - I think it's an ipv6 thing...not sure if I need to worry about it or not.
I've also noticed that when I first turn on my computer Photoshop and Illustrator load up quite fast. However, if I leave my PC on for about a half hour and then try to open it up again later, it's much slower. It's as if the other hard drives (scratch disks) are slowing down the load process, but in my power management options they aren't set to sleep or power down or anything for hours. Am I missing something else?
Why the heck does the boot sequence continue to list everything in my PC even though I keep disabling all but the primary OS drive (m4)?!?! bah!
Here are some screen captures of my bios settings and device manager (my apologies for the phone pics, couldn't figure out how to do a screen shot in the bios):
Thanks in advance for the help and thanks for taking the time to read all this, folks. You guys are the best!
OS: Windows 7 Professional (Sp1) 64-bit
CPU: Intel i7 940
RAM: 12.0 GB
Graphics: 2xRadeon 4850
HD : Crucial M4 128GB
Here is a shot showing what is bothering me - hard drives showing up as ejectable usb devices:
When I try and install the Intel Rapid Storage Technology software from my MSI's website, I get this error:
[Update: after Changing the RAID mode from IDE to AHCI I was able to install the Intel Rapid Storage software, but it never recognized the M4 SSD, which goes along with the whole Marvell/Intel thing outlined below]
I really just want to confirm what I've come to understand from reading around the forums and other online sources and that is as follows:
My motherboard (Big Bang Xpower) uses the Intel Chipset for the 3Gb/s connectors while the 6Gb/s connectors use a Marvell chipset. As a result, if my SSD is connected to the 6Gb/s sata connectors I will not be able to install/run/ the Intel Rapid Storage Technology utility which explains why the drives are showing up in the USB devices that can be safely removed.
Additionally, I'd like to know whether my Bios looks to be set up properly, and whether I'd be better off using the 3Gb/s ports and using the Intel AHCI Controller, or if I should deal with the fact that my internal hard drives all show up as USB devices that can be ejected and stick with the 6Gb/s ports.
Unrelated Side Questions and Screen Shots:
Microsoft Teredo Tunneling Adapter warning on Device Manager Screenie - I think it's an ipv6 thing...not sure if I need to worry about it or not.
I've also noticed that when I first turn on my computer Photoshop and Illustrator load up quite fast. However, if I leave my PC on for about a half hour and then try to open it up again later, it's much slower. It's as if the other hard drives (scratch disks) are slowing down the load process, but in my power management options they aren't set to sleep or power down or anything for hours. Am I missing something else?
Why the heck does the boot sequence continue to list everything in my PC even though I keep disabling all but the primary OS drive (m4)?!?! bah!
Here are some screen captures of my bios settings and device manager (my apologies for the phone pics, couldn't figure out how to do a screen shot in the bios):
Thanks in advance for the help and thanks for taking the time to read all this, folks. You guys are the best!