Hello G-String,
Find somebody that understands your BIOS, I did it myself but it is
a risk doing this. Changes in BIOS will have big impact on your PC.
Also read all the info you can get about creating RAID.
Be aware that all data on the HDD’s you use for RAID will be lost.
What did I do:
First I downloaded and installed the latest drivers for my system,
Intel for motherboard, Sapphire for videocard, Steinberg for hardware.
Installed also the RAID driver.
Made a system image on an external HDD and a windows recovery cd.
Backup everything on your hdd’s to external HDD.
Bios.
I disabled all onboard devices (audio, lan, IR enhanced consumer) accept 1394,
need it for MR816x. This is my configuration, yours can be different, depending on
the hardware you use.
Sata Drives, changed chipset sata mode from AHCI to RAID.
The discrete sata controller is still AHCI for my SSD drive (boot drive with OS and Cubase).
Save BIOS and restart. In my case after booting I could acces the RAID
configuration and selected the HDD’s for RAID configuration.
Again, be aware that all data on these drives will be lost!!!
In my system I have 1 SSD drive (Boot, OS and Cubase) and 4 HDD that I configured for RAID.
After doing this you will not see your new drive in windows.
In windows go to: Control Panel - Administrative Tools- Computer Management.
Click on storage - disk management.
Now you see all HDD’s in your system.
Click on the new HDD (RAID), create new volume and format.
Windows:
Control panel - Power options, change to High performance, click Change plan settings -
change advance power settings - Hard disk - Turn off hard disk - change to never.
Control panel - System - Advanced system settings -
tab advanced - performance -settings, change it for Adjust to best performance.
tab Remote - disable allow remote assistance and enable don’t allow connections to this computer.
Control panel - Windows defender, Windows firewall, Windows update, I disabled them all.
Control panel - Programs and features. I removed everything I don’t use.
Control panel - Programs and featers - turn Windows features on or off,
I only enabled Windows media player and net framework 3.5.1.
All the rest I disabled. But again this is for my system and needs.
Further you can find on the internet many items about tweaking windows 7.
Read and try, might help you.
Best regards,
Twan