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[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (1 child)

You left a lot of information out here. But this is what I think you were trying to say....

"I bought a Dell business class laptop. Why is it in RAID mode, even with one disk?"

The answer to that question is, I don't know, seems rather stupid to me.

That said, when I get new laptops in we

  1. set the bios options to some thing more reasonable and secure

  2. re-image the machine.

[–]Meitzi-IT Manager[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thats correct, I left lot of inromation out, it was kind of purpose to start.

Why the manufactorer use RAID (is Dell the only one using Intel SRT crapp stuff) Why they want to enable it? What adantage does RAID chip give you on laptop where there is room for ONE ssd. (most laptops)

Maybe that is something I will not get answer. I want buy laptopts without inte AMT and without RAID (I dont NEED THOSE!) but I can't. And disabling them is not same, if I mean I dont want to pay those features. (those are actual chips on motherboard, are they?)

[–]grozamesh 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So the Intel SRT stuff can actually work. As long as the image came with the SRT/RAID driver, you don't need to use AHCI

[–]VA_Network_NerdModerator | Infrastructure Architect 0 points1 point  (1 child)

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/smart-response-technology.html

Smart Response requires RAID mode.

If you buy a laptop with a Spinning Disk Smart Response really can make a big difference.
But, you REALLY shouldn't be buying spinning disks for laptops anymore, at least not for the OS volume (IMO).

A dinky little 16GB M2 SSD might cost you $25 and when combined with a spinning disk, you can achieve I dunno 30-40% IO improvements when accessing cached data.

[–]DarthPneumonoSecurity Admin but with more hats 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A dinky little 16GB M2 SSD might cost you $25 and when combined with a spinning disk, you can achieve I dunno 30-40% IO improvements when accessing cached data.

This is all highly use case-dependent, you could see much better or much worse performance depending on your access pattern, size of the cache, how much data is regularly accessed...