Hi guys.
SO, I have an MSI GE70 2PE Apache Pro gaming laptop. It's a serious beast of a machine for a laptop and you can look up the specs if you really care but that's not important right now.
It came with a 1TB HDD formatted for NTFS with Windows 8.1 installed on that drive. However it also had two empty mSATA bays. I wanted to speed it up so I bought a pair of (identical) 256 GB mSATA SSDs. When UPS delivered it I got out the ol' tiny screwdriver kit, did a full shutdown of Windows, pulled the plug, popped out the battery, popped open the case and popped in the SSDs. Four screwdriver-spins later and two button-pressings later I went into the BIOS, put them puppies in RAID 0 (by themselves, not with the HDD) and had a small nerdgasm. Behold, the glorious two SSD RAID 0 volume!
I then used Macrium Reflect to clone the OS from the HDD to the SSD, and then again from that same HDD over to an external USB 3.0 1TB HDD. Of course when I rebooted to that SSD array Windows freaked out and complained that oes noes you might be a pirate but no problem I called Microsoft and their computerized voice system talked me through the process to re-activate. Now everything is fine. Half a terabyte of pure speediness for my gaming pleasure. :cool: Oooooh yeah :cool:
tldr; Here's my question:
I have read that NTFS is not the optimal file system for SSDs. According to several websites exFAt is the preferred format. Now, if that is true, is there a way that I can convert the SSD RAID array to exFAT and still keep my OS? I doubt it, but if there is a way please tell me now.
Failing that, can I do the equivalent of re-installing Windows 8.1 while reformatting the SSD array to exFAT without loosing the OS and without buying a new copy of Windows? I don't care if I loose any of my files on the SSD but I'm not paying twice for the same OS if I can in any way avoid doing that.
All that's on the laptop now is the OS and few games plus some utilities & drivers and Windows Updates, etc. I can always reinstall that stuff. All the savegame files are either in the cloud or backed up on my backup server. Please help. :)
SO, I have an MSI GE70 2PE Apache Pro gaming laptop. It's a serious beast of a machine for a laptop and you can look up the specs if you really care but that's not important right now.
It came with a 1TB HDD formatted for NTFS with Windows 8.1 installed on that drive. However it also had two empty mSATA bays. I wanted to speed it up so I bought a pair of (identical) 256 GB mSATA SSDs. When UPS delivered it I got out the ol' tiny screwdriver kit, did a full shutdown of Windows, pulled the plug, popped out the battery, popped open the case and popped in the SSDs. Four screwdriver-spins later and two button-pressings later I went into the BIOS, put them puppies in RAID 0 (by themselves, not with the HDD) and had a small nerdgasm. Behold, the glorious two SSD RAID 0 volume!
I then used Macrium Reflect to clone the OS from the HDD to the SSD, and then again from that same HDD over to an external USB 3.0 1TB HDD. Of course when I rebooted to that SSD array Windows freaked out and complained that oes noes you might be a pirate but no problem I called Microsoft and their computerized voice system talked me through the process to re-activate. Now everything is fine. Half a terabyte of pure speediness for my gaming pleasure. :cool: Oooooh yeah :cool:
tldr; Here's my question:
I have read that NTFS is not the optimal file system for SSDs. According to several websites exFAt is the preferred format. Now, if that is true, is there a way that I can convert the SSD RAID array to exFAT and still keep my OS? I doubt it, but if there is a way please tell me now.
Failing that, can I do the equivalent of re-installing Windows 8.1 while reformatting the SSD array to exFAT without loosing the OS and without buying a new copy of Windows? I don't care if I loose any of my files on the SSD but I'm not paying twice for the same OS if I can in any way avoid doing that.
All that's on the laptop now is the OS and few games plus some utilities & drivers and Windows Updates, etc. I can always reinstall that stuff. All the savegame files are either in the cloud or backed up on my backup server. Please help. :)