

That's where you'll get the first smile on your face. Then there's that first boot up on the SSD, weird. Most SSD drives will get to roughly 25 Degrees C, just above room temperature. No worries though as the HDD can handle it, yet the SSD remains completely cool to lukewarm. When not cooled down they can reach 40-50 Degrees C pretty easily.

Modern day HDDs tend to get hot, or at the least quite warm. The second factor you can rule out is heat. Completely silent, I like that very much. So no more purring and resonating or other weird noises. You will look at the SSD wondering "is that thing even working?", while the Windows 7 logo has already appeared on your monitor. My system boot drive many moons ago was a WD Raptor and when that HD was crunching, you'd known the HDD was alive alright. Simply go towards disk management, make a partition, do quick format and bind the unit to a device letter. Just click on the SCSI controller properties, point to and install the supplied driver and boom your storage unit is there for you. So even if you run The RevoDrive 3 (X2) as extra unit (secondary drive) you'll still need to install the host driver, if you look to your right you'll notice the unit as detected and uninstalled. During the Windows installation process however Windows will ask you to install any RAID driver, at that moment you point towards the driver on say a CD or USB stick, and then the RAID Array is created and supported, after which windows can be installed onto your all new drive.Īfter installing it as a 2nd drive btw, in Windows itself you should get this. Secondly, this drive is bootable, that means you can use it for your root/boot Windows installation. But first, the installation.įirst off, installation will require a driver. On this page we want to share some thoughts on how to increase the lifespan and performance of your SSD.
