2 vertex 4

[aryan51]

my buddy just bought 2 vertex 4 for his laptop acer aspire 8943g i installed them but how do i get them to act as 1 like the old hard drives they only both show up in ide mode when installing windows one as primary one as secondary before his old hard drives showed up as 1


thanks
mark

[Deton]

do you guys really know what you're doing?
because I didn't even know you can install two harddrive in a laptop.
save all the headache, return 2 vertex and just buy one huge SSD (256 or 500gb).
you're talking about RAID0 setup for desktop and I don't think laptop's mobo has this feature.

[aryan51]

no i does not have raid but it had 2 wd 750 gb hard drives in it and they both acted as 1 drive

[aryan51]

giving it 1.5tb

[Deton]

are you sure it has two physical HDD or just one 1.5Gb drive and has two partition to make it looks like two.
it's must be a big ass laptop to hold two HDDs.

[aryan51]

yes it had 2 physical drives 2 wd750bpvt

[criss_glitch666]

It does support two individual drives.

Acer Support: Acer Aspire 8943G Notebook Series Specifications

As for the RAID0.. why would you want to chance data loss when a single SSD is hella fast on it's own? Like Deton said, I would get one large drive and keep a 750GB in for storage.

[aryan51]

both of the 750s craped out

[aryan51]

both 750s died and the computer store is closed and i had them laying around he had the cash and was willing i told him it was not necessary to put both in but he has a lot of cash to burn lol

[Deton]

if you want multiple harddrive combined as one big huge drive then it calls RAID0, which the setup feature in the bios, just to let you know RAID0 doesn't support TRIM.
TRIM only support RAID0 in Intel's 7 series chipset. So it's best to use one SSD as boot drive and use the HDD as storage.

[Deton]

both 750s died and the computer store is closed and i had them laying around he had the cash and was willing i told him it was not necessary to put both in but he has a lot of cash to burn lol

if both drives died at the same time then the old drives were setup up as RAID0, if one dies then the second is no long in service as well.

[aryan51]

but originally they both acted as 1 so how do i get that back is it possible ?

[Deton]

you need to take a look at bios, I'm not familiar with acer bios, some mobo has to press control+I to take you RAID setup menu to configure the new drives. Take a look at user manual.

[criss_glitch666]

https://support.acer.com/acerpanam/notebook/0000/Acer/Aspire9800/Aspire9800faq6.shtml

I don't know if that's relevant but it's the best I can do! lmao

[Cyberburnout]

This would have been something that is setup with the recovery disk. It should load a raid type driver, partition the drives the way you are asking about then install the os.

I hope he created the restore disk. You may still run into issues. It might only be support on certain driver. calling Acer will be fruitless.

This unit indeed has 2 drive bays with support of at least 1tb per bay.

[aryan51]

he no longer has the recovery disk am i f#$%ed