Published On Apr 15, 2024
This is the next step in getting my new power desktop computer up and running. I am moving my existing Windows 10 installation over from my old computer (per retail license rules) and set it up in a RAID1 mirror array for redundancy on the NVME SSDs. The challenge is that the new SSDs require special drivers to be installed that normally must be installed on a fresh installation of Windows during set up. I don't want to do a clean install because my current system has many programs already installed and configured. It would take days to reinstall everything, so my strategy (done many times before) is to move an existing installation to a new motherboard, let the new drivers install, then go back and remove the old devices from the system. Then using tools like system file checker, be sure that the system is not corrupted.
00:03 Initial start up with existing SATA Windows 10 hard drive
01:55 How can you move existing Windows to SSDs? What is required?
06:34 Step by Step how to install RAID drivers and configure AMD motherboard for RAID array
21:53 Initial Test - Performance data from completed build
Components:
AMD CPU Ryzen 9 7900x
Gigabyte B650 AORUS ELITE AX ATX AM5 LGA1718 Motherboard
ANTEC P10 Flux Case
GSkill Trident Z5 NEO RGB 64GB DDR5 6000
ASUS DUAL GeForce RT 4070OC 12GB DDR6X
Seasonic FOCUS GX-850 80+ GOLD 850 Watt power supply
be quiet! PURE LOOP 2 360mm All IN One Water Cooling System
WD_BLACK SN850X NVMe M.2 2280 2TB PCI-Express 4.0 x4 Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) WDS200T2X0E
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