Dv6t 7300 SSD upgrade

Hello

I have a HP DV6t 7300, provided with a 750 GB HARD drive and a recovery an32GB mSATA SSD. That's what I did:

1: I backed up my hard drive using Acronis.

2: I bought a 1 TB 2.5 in. Samsung 840 evo

3: I cloned my 750hdd for the Samsung ssd using an external cable with acronis

4: I removed the hard drive and replaced with the ssd, everything works well, has noticed the bump in speed.

5: I used the Recovery Manager HP to withdraw the recovery disc.

6: I have assigned a new drive letter for the drive to 32 GB mSATA and tested by copy/paste. Works very well

7: I downloaded the latest driver Intel Intel Web site RST (for some reason I couldn't do support HP)

page).

8: I have installed Samsung magician software and evaluated the Samsung ssd, works as advertised, bar a message

on ahci does not. I did some research and found that his is a problem with the software of magician and Intel RST

care of this.  So I uninstalled Samsung magician.

Now for the questions:

a: is that installation ok?

b: my HP only has raid, are treated my 2 drives (Samsung ssd and disc mSATA ssd) as two drives separated or just a

drive with 2 partitions?

c: I was better physically eliminating the mSATA ssd? (I'd like to change to a greater capacity, a

If possible, I still boot from the Samsung ssd)

d: Will Raid works with an ssd?

e: Control Panel of my Intel RST has no acceleration button, why is this?

f: can I re install software Samsung magician? There are many relevant utilities for the ssd.

g: am I losing this configuration performance benefits, especially since I read that I can not use Samsung 'speed '.

double feature with RAID configuration.

Thanks a lot for your patience and your support

You did good. I would not mess with it. There is no option of acceleration for a SSD may not be the target for acceleration, may not be the vehicle for acceleration; That is to say you can not accelerate an SSD with an another SSD. Don't mess with RAID level BIOS Setup program. The reason the magician Samsung says there is no ahci is that the BIOS is set to RAID, but it is ahci compatible RAID and works well with a single hard drive too long that you have the correct Intel storage driver, you do. You work as two drives separated right now and you want to keep it this way. The WSSD will purely exercise storage and you could replace it with a larger, but you have a 1 to SSD (impressive) already. The WSSD is actually a little faster and if you need to edit video or run Photoshop on a big batch of photos you might store on the WSSD for fastest possible disk access.

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