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Inspiron 2350 AIO BIOS
On a new-out-of-the-box Inspiron 2350 AIO, I checked the BIOS tab Advanced, On Board Device Configuration, SATA Mode and found it was set to RAID. I thought this was unusual. Later I had problems upgrading to Windows 8.1 and had to rebuild Windows from a Dell Recovery CD. (The 2350 does not have optical media, so I used an external USB DVD). I had to change the above BIOS setting to AHCI in order to boot from the CD. Dell Tech Support insists that AHCI is the correct setting anyhow. So why does the new PC come with RAID setting? The 2350 has both SSD and HDD but that doesn't sound like RAID to me. My rebuilt software is running 8.1 perfectly.
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December 16th, 2013 19:00
I have one of these coming this week. Before I load it up should I check for this as well? What is the difference between SATA and RAID?
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December 16th, 2013 19:00
I think you should have left it as RAID. It was set up that way to take advantage of the 32GB Cache.
Check it out:
http://suite101.com/a/understanding-the-difference-between-sata-and-raid-a245405