![]() ![]() it’s all going to be in the cloud it seems, even the OS. You have to wonder at things getting more and more secure to prevent data theft while efforts to ensure the extra security is “user interactive” to prevent data loss when something breaks seem to be left behind. That might be something worth checking (by transferring a drive and seeing if another machine with the technology can use it, obviously!). Why else use the specific phrase “the system” ? Basically I read that as if the main board dies the drive content will effectively go with it. It seems you might have to destroy the content before the drive will supply any information to other than its original controller. if the Dell engineer changes the main board (or you try to transfer a drive, even to an “identical” machine) there is no way of getting to the volume, even in its encrypted state. I guess that’s a second reason why there is often a specific BIOS option to secure erase the drives on these systems. You won’t be able to use this volume until the module is placed back in the system.” The answer “The volume (module + drive being accelerated) will go offline to protect user data. In the specific case “What happens if I remove the Intel® Optane™ memory module from my system after I enable it?” Note under “Questions Related to Various Usage Cases” Looking at what steeviebops indicated (though the specs would indicate optane is less likely: ) The info such as I found on Intel Optane implementations is at Switch off UEFI and reinstalling Windows gets a whole lot messier as you need to find a F6 driver if its not provided by Windows. I guess you could check how it’s configured if you check in the RAID interface bbearren mentions (which might be well hidden or maybe as on some older Dells, accessed through the machine’s F2 BIOS) – though the machines I worked on all had a single drive unless you specifically requested the machine built with the option installed from Dell (Dell configurator.).Īlso you probably need to note the drivers would be different as changing the controller configuration changes the plug and play configuration, (both device ID and capability information) so different drivers would be required, though you can expect the drivers Dell provide through UEFI probably cater for all the settings the BIOS supports. ![]() I think Dell support would argue there is an array, it has a single intelligent disk as member and you could add another drive should you want the operational redundancy (or to state the converse, it’s a RAID 1 mirror configuration where one drive has been removed which doesn’t complain all the time as the alarm is turned off.) ![]() As said if anyone was prepared to try to cross the mire (as a reinstall might be needed?) and benchmark the results, it would be technically interesting. There’s probably next to nothing in it but it ups the Dell a little past the opposition in the benchmarks I suspect, so does it really matter how they describe the operation you are selecting in the setup page – it might as well say “Windows 7/ Windows 8” and “Windows 10/Windows 11”, in the same way as some old school Compaq machines had none of those settings, just “legacy” (for DOS, Windows 98, Linux) or “Windows XP”. Perhaps I should have explained, I was specifically answering the question in the original post “…what advantage, if any, would you get from using a RAID configuration, other than being able to utilize the Intel RST driver?” – the short answer is basically it removes the bitlocker workload from the CPU/Windows to the storage subsystem. Bbearren is right by the way – there is no conflict in the answer. ![]()
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