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Well, I've braved the Windows 7 waters alone with this Dell Precision 490. I've left the 470 on Vista x64 for now. It turns out the RAID controller on the 490 is completely different from the one on the 470. The 490 uses an Intel controller, and can provide RAID 0, 1, or 5 right from the motherboard. Hello, I recently purchased a refurbished Dell Precision 490 Tower. Do the windows 7 to 10 or any update the first step is checking for drivers.
You don't have the original XP install disk for that system?that disc has the drivers integrated into it.beyond that do you have a floppy drive on that system? That is pretty much the only thing that installer will see.I usually integrate those drivers into my xp disk.but also used nliteos.com to update all service packs and post security updates into the install as well.Now I have a single CD-rom that installs all my dell machines simply, easily. All drivers for LAN / Mass Storage Controllers work flawlessly. Then download video as needed and chipsets.
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Still like to do some work.
It seems you and I are butting heads a lot lately, Ken.:) But I'd like to post my (good) experience with RAID 0.First, let me say that Dell workstations have had basic RAID controllers onboard for a long time now, and I only use Dell Precision workstations.I ran RAID 0 with two different Precision 470s, running XP x64 and Vista x64, and now I have RAID 0 running on my Precision 490 running Windows 7. The first two had Adaptec controllers, feeding SATA interfaces, and this 490 has an Intel controller feedingSATA interfaces.
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It can do RAID 0, 1, or 5, and I chose to go with 0.There are good reasons to be wary of RAID 0 - for one thing a single drive failure loses the whole disk. However, there is high-end, high-reliability drive hardware that can be bought for not all that much more than basic prices. For example, I havetwo 1 TB Western Digital RE3 (Raid Edition) disk drives right now making up my drive C. They were about half again more expensive than the basic 'black' drives ($160 vs $110 or so).
I also have a good multi-level backup strategy.Once I set up the Raid controller on this Precision 490 via the BIOS before ever installing Windows, Windows 7 Ultimate x64 just treated it as a single disk drive and installed right off the disc, no problems, nothing special.And the performance. The high disk throughput is why even though I have chosen to disable the Windows 7 indexing I don't find searches slow at all.I had a drive fail once - on my Vista system.
At that time I had a current Windows Backup on an external MyBook drive, and I was able to easily restore the system once I replaced the drive. That system went on to run for 2 years with zero problems, andis now my Subversion server.I haven't had any glitches at all with the RAID 0 on my Windows 7 system and I love the performance.
I recommend RAID 0 (with top quality drives and especially on a high-end system).West, does the system on which you're considering putting RAID 0 have an onboard RAID controller?-Noel.
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