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I have two workstations, one Dell Precision 490 and one Precision 470, both of which have onboard Adaptec 'CERC' SATA Raid controllers. P2p Free Downloads Movies more. These controllers, as I understand things, just facilitate a 'software' Raid implementation. My Precision 470 is currently running Vista x64, with a driver ported from XP x64 to enable the onboard Raid. The 490 is still running XP. I believe the 490's controller is the same as on the 470, though I am not nearly as familiar with the newer system yet.

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I wish to upgrade both of these systems to Windows 7 x64. As Windows 7 is now 2 versions distant from the 64 bit driver I used to enable the Raid controller in Vista, I'm wondering if anyone's gotten the Dell Precision hardware to provide Raid 0 with Windows 7, and whether the old XP x64 driver, which was fully compatible with Vista x64, will work in Windows 7 x64. It's worth doing; it provides VERY fast disk operations under Vista x64.

Well, I've braved the Windows 7 waters alone with this Dell Precision 490. I've left the 470 on Vista x64 for now. It turns out the RAID controller on the 490 is completely different from the one on the 470. The 490 uses an Intel controller, and can provide RAID 0, 1, or 5 right from the motherboard. Very slick - thank you Dell! I chose to go with RAID 0 as I prefer the extra speed and space, and have purchased top of the line Western Digital RE3 drives for maximum reliability. The key was configuring the BIOS in the 490 to force the consideration of the drives connected to SATA0 and SATA1 as a Raid array.

It then brought up the RAID control config screen that allowed me to create a RAID 0 volume. Windows 7 Ultimate, right out of the box, recognized the onboard Intel Raid controller on the Precision 490 motherboard, and allowed me to format the array and install Windows on it. Smooth as silk! I'm very impressed. So I have a lightning fast Windows 7 x64 Ultimate installation with 2 TB of drive C: space. I have an additional drive connected to SATA2 in a non-RAID setting, providing an additional 1 TB drive D.

This system runs flawlessly and it would be hard to ask for more performance. And it's nice to see 1.46 TB free on drive C: with all my apps and everything installed. Hope this helps anyone else trying to configure a 'new old' workstation. These systems can REALLY sing with Windows 7. Well, I've braved the Windows 7 waters alone with this Dell Precision 490.

I've left the 470 on Vista x64 for now. It turns out the RAID controller on the 490 is completely different from the one on the 470. The 490 uses an Intel controller, and can provide RAID 0, 1, or 5 right from the motherboard. Very slick - thank you Dell!

I chose to go with RAID 0 as I prefer the extra speed and space, and have purchased top of the line Western Digital RE3 drives for maximum reliability. The key was configuring the BIOS in the 490 to force the consideration of the drives connected to SATA0 and SATA1 as a Raid array. It then brought up the RAID control config screen that allowed me to create a RAID 0 volume. Windows 7 Ultimate, right out of the box, recognized the onboard Intel Raid controller on the Precision 490 motherboard, and allowed me to format the array and install Windows on it. Smooth as silk! I'm very impressed. So I have a lightning fast Windows 7 x64 Ultimate installation with 2 TB of drive C: space.

I have an additional drive connected to SATA2 in a non-RAID setting, providing an additional 1 TB drive D. This system runs flawlessly and it would be hard to ask for more performance. And it's nice to see 1.46 TB free on drive C: with all my apps and everything installed. Hope this helps anyone else trying to configure a 'new old' workstation. These systems can REALLY sing with Windows 7. If you don't want to use RAID on the system, the solution is simple: Press Ctrl-A (or whatever the special character was) during bootup, and disable the RAID controller ( NOTE: THIS WILL DESTROY ALL DATA ON ANY EXISTING RAID DRIVE, SO BACK UP YOUR DATA FIRST). Windows 7 should then just (fresh) install.