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System Reserved space

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BluDog

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I have been using RocketRaid controllers for a long time. I have built a new PC, which I am not using as I am running into some issues. My Raid controller seems to be working, though when I had 2 separate RAID setups the system crashed and would not reboot. I had updated the firmware on one pair of the 4 Samsung 840 pro 256gb drives so after removing the pair of drives that had originally been my install pair Raid1, I installed Win x64 ultimate on the remaining updated pair. I then reconnected the original pair as SATA III drives in my new pc and simple formated them individually so that I could upgrade them using the Samsung upgrade software.

Here is the question: I notice that each of these two drives has a 'System Reserved' partitiion of 100mb with a different Drive letter from the main portion of the drive. E.G., my G drive has an F system reserved partition and my H drive has an I system reserved partition. In addition each of the drives has a 102mb unallocated partition. While it seems that when I ultimately put these into RocketRaid controller I will end up with the same remaining size I would appreciate learning why these are present when my hard drives on this machine have no such partitions.

Thanks a lot,
 
It's windows that makes a 100MB partition when installing.

I wouldn't put SSDs on a rocketraid, you're losing performance.
 
Thanks for the response Aesma. The RocketRaid that I am using is the 640L which presumably supports SATA III and SSDs. I was looking for a card that would support SSDs rather than using the Mb Raid support via the CPU as I don't want to slow down the CPU. I am using RAID1 for 2 sets of 2 drives.

Btw, I know about the Windows 100mb partition but these have three partitions, the 100mb 'System Reserved' one which has a different drive letter from the SSD and a 3rd 102mb section 'unallocated.' Why 2 additional separate partitions from the main part? I understand the Win part but not the unallocated.

Regarding RAID, do you have an alternative suggestion to what I am currently using?
 
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