[18th Anniversary] Asus Black Pearl - P5k-Premium Testing Report

[ReverendMaynard]

You want disk performance? Join the party and enter the matrix http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=467848 This certainly did it for me - - I am waiting for reverendmaynard to get more drives and post his results.

lol ses, I've been stoked to get this up and rolling it's just killing my ultra perfect current Vista install that's holding me back. Well.. that and my momentary lapse of reason with the whole "Blitz" fiasco lol.

What's the best free image software that works with Vista? And can I apply that image to a matrix RAID set up or do I have to start from scratch?

These are questions that I probably know the answer to, but hey what the hell it keeps the thread moving

[Kilyin]

lol ses, I've been stoked to get this up and rolling it's just killing my ultra perfect current Vista install that's holding me back. Well.. that and my momentary lapse of reason with the whole "Blitz" fiasco lol.

What's the best free image software that works with Vista? And can I apply that image to a matrix RAID set up or do I have to start from scratch?

These are questions that I probably know the answer to, but hey what the hell it keeps the thread moving

Is your current setup RAID? If not, it'll be a little difficult to image it to RAID partitions, but not impossible. If it is, it should be fairly seamless. Vista actually has a builtin imaging utility called ImageX. Google it.

[sesdave]

lol ses, I've been stoked to get this up and rolling it's just killing my ultra perfect current Vista install that's holding me back. Well.. that and my momentary lapse of reason with the whole "Blitz" fiasco lol.

What's the best free image software that works with Vista? And can I apply that image to a matrix RAID set up or do I have to start from scratch?

These are questions that I probably know the answer to, but hey what the hell it keeps the thread moving

Fritzman recommends Acronis http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...cts/trueimage/ or you could go the free route and use BartPE with DriveXML. You have to put the ICH9R drivers into the right folder before creating the CD, but there's heaps of info on their site about how to do all that. Check hs posts in the matrix thread p44. Personally I did a reinstall but I am going to get Acronis True Image 11 as it looks a good investment - the free trial is fully operational for 15 days and it looks very good. Seems to have universal reinstall. I can always check with Fritzman for help if I get any problems as he seems to be leading the RAID way on all of this - he used to be on the P5W problems thread cos thats where I first picked this all up from.