basic disk only for boot.
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/47d6232b-b70a-4cba-9867-3f2a63213f8a/booting-windows-7-from-dynamic-disk?forum=w7itproinstall
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/927520
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So I bought a Samsung 850 EVO 500 GB SSD recently and I'm wondering if there are any BIOS settings I should change. I have an almost 8 year old machine, so keep that in mind.
My Motherboard: ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe AM2 NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI MCP ATX AMD I'm running Windows 7. I can post more specs if necessary.
1. "HDD SMART Monitoring" in the BIOS is currently Disabled. Should I enable this? I noticed Samsung splashes the SMART acronym around a bit in their Magician software.
2. Under advanced in BIOS, "JMicron RAID Controller" is set to IDE. Should this be RAID or AHCI? I know I read somewhere AHCI is better for SSD, and I dont think Samsung SSDs are RAID compatible. Is there somewhere else in the BIOS where I should change something to AHCI?
3. I have another Samsung SSD (128 GB). Since according to Samsung they are not RAID compatible, would Dynamic Disk be a good option to combine the two drives into one partition? Would it make my drives have slower read/write times?
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