"Hackintosh" on RAID 0 SSDs 

“This guy has SSD wings.” -Druaga, 2016

You need to have a strip size of 420KB otherwise the installation isn't dank enough

Yes! I love hour long videos. They're nice and relaxing to watch before bed.

Druaga, am I the only one that noticed you didn't use the 'Customize' button during setup? If you opened that menu, you'd be able to bring up the page for choosing which kexts you'd want installed based on your hardware and also If I'm not mistaken bootloader installation should be under it also. You should /never/ go and install a Hackintosh without using the Customize button first. That's probably why your sound didn't work amongst other things. Also, You were using two SATA III drives hooked up to a SATA II RAID controller. A heavy bottleneck as I'll ever see it. RAID is a complex beast to work with but in the end of the day you tried. Next time though, be sure to get a bootloader like Clover and do it that way. :)

wait.. why is there a ATI and Nvidia sticker? WHAT MADNESS IS THIS.

SSD wings, Radical man!

Druaga, man, you make the absolute funniest, and most creative tech videos I've ever seen. Keep it up man, your content is golden!

for your next video you should put an ssd in a parking meter!

"And today we're going to continue the..glossy screen adventures" *likes video*

Hey Druaga! I love your videos, I learned a lot about ssd-s and hard drives, OS setup and such things, you rule man! :D Greetings from Hungary!

Tfw new Drauga video at midnight. Your timing is impeccable as always :^)

The point with the stripe size is this: A Stripe is the smallest unit on a RAID. Think of it as the block size. Every read and write happens one stripe at a time. This means that larger stripe sizes can get very inefficient when you are dealing with lots of small files, like for booting an OS or compiling large programs. For mostly sequential access to large files, like videos or .ISOs, large stripe sizes are better. Also, you should try to format the drive with the same block size as your stripe size. For installing an OS, i would propably go rather low, something like 8k. For a data drive i would go with 64k or 128k. And then format the drive accordingly.

so glad I found you, you rock. Loved your iPod that wouldn't vid.

Oh man you buy SSD's like I buy cartons of smokes. Kudos.

I BEEN WAITING 4 A HACKINTOSH VIDEO FROM THIS GUY

That apple logo with the slash through it was used on the iPhone from the 2G until the 5 from iOS 1.0 up to iOS 7, when it was changed to the more modern flat icon.

The minimum amount of drive space used for small files depends on file system cluster size. It has nothing to do with the raid set at all. The raid controller makes the drives appear as 1 drive with virtual tracks and sectors, that are mapped accross the diffrent drives. How they are mapped depends on the stripe-size, but to the OS, each sector is still 512 bytes and the FS determines the cluster size, which is used for allocation of the drive space.

Yep, I agree with you. I like more when the SSD has the box, and it comes in antistatic bag.

I WANT SSD WINGS!

I think you never saved hardware raid settings. Check 27:31

I've got a Gateway FX, looks exactly like yours. I found it used for pretty cheap. Running Linux Mint on it, works great!

My second Mushkin SSD died the other day. It was the RMA replacement for my first Mushkin SSD. They both failed for the same reason: controller failure; BIOS no longer detects them.

I don't usually comment on videos (and this one is semi old) but I've used that distro and it saddened me that you didn't go into the customize menu. That's how you get it working "properly." You check what features you have or want and uncheck the unnecessary ones. If you try again I'd recommend doing that. Otherwise keep doing what you're doing.

on my Mac book pro if you open just 1 application it poops itself but it's running elcapatan

Brings back memories when I did my tutorials years ago on iatkos and Ideneb. The frame rate drop is most likely due to of not having the correct drivers installed

Great video druaga! if you REALLY wanted it to work i recommend you look for a RAID controller driver/kext. but i think the windows 7 or 10 would be logical as you already have a MBP.

I bought a Silicon Power 120GB SSD a year and a half ago and within less than 6 months of usage it failed. I was able to recover it from a completely damaged partition table. Now the problem is upon restarting, BIOS has a tendency to not find it and calls for another system reboot. Thankfully I have a whole box full of SSDs and HDDs I replaced it.

1920x1200 on a 2008 laptop? Not bad.

Hey smokers, SSDruaga1 here

Love the videos, Druaga. I loved L4D2.

@Druaga1 you need to install the boot loader on the ssd using the hackintosh install disk in the utilities menu bar tab.

45:40 When you see that bar come down, you *know* what's gonna happen :P

just a fyi for next time i think vista and up has the Intel raid drivers built in so it would just detect it right away no drivers needed to install

The built-in RAID on that laptop is not RAID at all, it is a firmware on the board that requires a driver for the OS to conduct the RAID functions. So unless you have drivers for it on OSX, it will be ignored and show up as individual drives.

"Hey smokers druaga1 here" and I'm like "but druaga1, I don't smoke!?!"

still waiting on the g4 cube video

I think that apple logo was used with snow leopard (I think.) and I'm 90% sure they used it with devices like the iPhone 4 on its stock firmware

I'd like to see you internalize usb wifi and replace the mpcie wifi with a sata card to add two more ssds somewhere, or perhaps see a video of an eGPU setup

Not sure about stripe size, but I know that is how it works with blocks. The minimum file size for any file no matter how little data it has in it is 1 block. So if you use 16 KB blocks and have a file that only has 4 KB of information, the file will still be 16 KB so, four times its actual size. I'm guessing stripes are essentially the same as blocks, except spread across your RAID volume. There has got to be some reason not to set the blocks/stripes too small, but for the life of me, I can't remember why. Perhaps because the FAT would be unrealistically huge due to having to keep track of so many blocks? I'm not sure. Man, you remember when the file system of a disk actually made a meaningful impact on the available space?

I never could get my audio to work on my hackintosh build, got everything else but the audio never would cooperate. I ended up getting a really cheap (but very functional and decent) USB sound device that works at BIOS level 100% without any drivers. It's so rad...!

for raid you plug one of these extremely tiny usb 2.0 sticks (not much bigger than the plug itself, about the size of one of these "logitech unified receiver" thingies) in and leave that plugged in at all times. then in the BIOS select AHCI and the first boot device to be the USB. Then install OSX on a software raid you created via disk util from the CD. For the first boot, use the EFI on the CD. Then boot, set everything up. Then install proper chameleon to the USB from within OS X. I remember there being a fairly well-structured chameleon config wizard UI-thing you could find online. there you would configure it to boot from the raid and set a timer (5seconds is fine) to do so automatically. You are so lucky you don't have to deal with KEXTs (drivers for the "custom" hardware that vanilla OS X does not have).

That off-centred trackpad makes me slightly uncomfortable.

If you want to install drivers and a boot loader onto the hdd, consider using multibeast. Only problem is that you have to signup to download.

You should use Yosemite zone as it has native Intel raid at the setup.. it did for me anyways it should work because it also finds all the next for your machine automatically and installs a bootloader.

can you put a downlode link for the mac ISO in the description(i want to setup my old Toshiba qosmio g20-105 AS an dual Boot Windows 7/OS x system

Looks like the SSDs are saturating the bandwidth of SATA II. If the RAID was working they should have two times the bandwidth of SATA II, as they are both taking up a SATA II "lane". Something tells me the soft RAID isn't working as it should.

Druaga have you ever smoked weed?

Niresh makes Hackintosh a lot easier to install with usually only a little bit of modification of settings.

I wonder if I should put a SSD into a 2006 Compaq Presario? Or a Nvidia GTX 420

aren't you going to buy those zip disks for the powermac g4? you said you would make a video about it!!!!!

Everything around me is tempting me to try Hackintoshing my PC again, damn you SSDruaga!!!!

Man, I remember back when you had to use iATKOS if you didn't want to spend a week working out how to formulate your own DSDT to make your motherboard work. Huh, it's still around. That blows my mind.

Heh. Love taking the weekend off to make hackintosh boot. Had a pc I set up for Windows yesterday and it just magically booted.

I miss my old laptop, it had two graphics cards and two hard drives.

If the OSX installer was unable to see the first configured raid, that means that it was a fakeraid which is a software raid. (a cheap version of raid : the controller simply tells the OS "hey if you have the drivers, you can use theses disk as a raid")A true raid controller would hide the disks from the guest OS and only present it the raid as a virtual disk. Soooo... this is fine. You had the choice between software raid made by the fakeraid controller or a software raid made by OSX.

You can just ignore those brackets if you have an SSD. Just duct tape the drive in place and you are ready to go.They are vibration-proof, remember?

Still waiting on the SSD iBook video...

you can install a bootloader from the iatkos disk. right before you push install push options unchecked everything except the chameleon bootloader and it should work without issue! I did this many a time I'm my hackintosh attempts.

I want that laptop, you should try a benchmarks on it

How did you get the blu-ray drive for such an old laptop? They used some weird ATAPI port at that time, and I can't find even a regular DVD drive for one!

That was surreal!... I'm just messing around on Skate 2 as I watch this video, and I started this slow, janky grind down a rail near the Matrix Plaza, just as the video reaches 54:41 and I kid you not, I landing it at 54:52! Man, I wish I could have caught it on video or something.

Wow!! Thats really cool a Hackbook from 2008

the apple logo was used in the original ios from 1-6

Hi, do you know if its possible to use intel RST on Hackintosh? My laptop have both a sata HDD and a mSata PCI SSD.

www.cnet.com/products/gateway-p-7805u-fx-edition/specs/ Interface Serial ATA-150 SATA I (revision 1.x) interface, formally known as SATA 1.5Gb/s, is the first generation SATA interface running at 1.5 Gb/s. The bandwidth throughput, which is supported by the interface, is up to 150MB/s.

That Wall-E DVD satan edition with 64 GB on it. Wtf.

Is not RAID 1 increasing the Data rate?, because of reading/writing on both Drives at the same time?

0:22 Is that an Anatel logo on the back of the Laptop?

Still waiting for 100 Layers of SSD Challenge

9:08 SSD Defibrillator

Personally, for Snow leopard I'd use the iBoot + Multibeast method, and then update to 10.6.8 via combo update package.

Nice it brings back memories of hackintosh :)

hey druaga, mind i ask where you got your iATKOS install? i looked it up and they even seem to have El Capitan ported over, just $12 or $24 if you're impatient

Try to install 10.11 with clover on the laptop.

I'm trying to make a hackintosh myself but it's not going well

If this computer has it, put your boot loader (Lilo or Grub should work, it worked on my 10.5 hackintosh years go) on an SD card.

Re: Strip/File size. That's true, that your minimum file size is going to be whatever the Strip size is. But there's another, more concerning number & that's whatever the physical 'Block' size is. Due to the way SSD's write/erase data, if you have a high number of small file sizes, the overriding Block size is what is written/erased & this is what produces wear level on SSD's. There's an interesting channel by "Scott Moulton" who does Forensic data recovery who talks in one of his videos about how SSD's store/manage data on an electrochemical level... I found it very interesting; 'Shmoocon 2008'

do you ever use IRC? also that laptop is in a really nice condition.

Maybe it is time to install the latest UBUNTU OS on top of the old OS and it does look a bit like OS X especially if you add the OS X Theme pack, It turns out that the RAID is actually for your data you know your documents,photographs,video and your music files and a separate drive for your OS X and anyway four 5TB western Digital drives would have been the way to go for in RAID I mode and a separate drive for OS X to install onto.

40:00 that deduplication feature is a thing in Windows Server editions for a few years now technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831602(v=ws.11).aspx

Stupid questions: a RAID 0 with 2 SSD (250GB each)is more or less expensive than one 500GB SSD?

dude you not can't use full speed on this "SSD" drivers if your laptop not support "SATA3" may be that is your problem with the speed i don't know

I LOVE YOUR VIEDOS DUDE! Good job!

Macs have the BD icon because there were external blu ray drives for Mac ps. You have the same watch as me

still waiting on that gentoo on p4 video

Hey Druaga! If you want an SSD that feels substantial and is packaged very well, look for "Super Talent" SSDs. I've used one of their IDE (Yes, a native IDE SSD) SSDs and it has been great in my old Dell Latitude D610 laptop. Go ahead and blow more money!

i run RAID0 ssd for like 3 years now and i like it alot

You should try to install OS X using the Tonymacx86 method, it's a much cleaner install and gives you more of a system you can build upon because it's vanilla OS X. Not to mention you could have used your legit Snow Leopard install disk with it or even get the latest version installed.

Please try with the iPod again! I want to see that you can do it!

I have a 250 GB SSD I bought off of Newegg on sale for $50. I heard it was prone to failing and stuff a few months after getting it. I've had it for 5 months and haven't had a problem with it yet :D. They also said that my Mobo had a 50/50 chance of showing up DOA. Cmos battery still needs to be replaced and sometimes it won't turn of unless I take it out and put it back in but other than that it works. I think tbh it was just some really unlucky people who wrote those reviews.

22:48 I wonder whether a Hackintosh running OS X and "software" RAID from OpenZFS is possible? That would be pretty frickin' sweet.

OS X supports Blu-Ray with an external Drive

BlueRay Disks can store up to 500GB of files

why did they name it SDD? i sometimes accidentaly say STD

It looks like the specs of this laptop could run El Capitan. Apparently, things like Unibeast make it very simple now. I will say on a MacBook5,2 (2.13GHz) El Cap is not incredibly smooth. In fact, I've stopped using Firefox because it was too heavy for RU-vid.

For about $25 you can pick up a 2.93GHz T9800 and get another 30-40% uplift in performance. 5-15% of that is from the 6MB of L2 cache. A 3.06GHz T9900 isn't worth the 50% price premium for a measly 66MHz.

you are super funny, I enjoy watching your content :D

Druaga what is the best SSD for games in about 50 dollars? Is the Samsung 750 Evo good?

Its 63 gigs for copy protection, you can't put that on another disk since the computer "thinks" it's larger than it is. It's some file table/directory fuckery. At least that's what I heard. I think I may have headed it from vwestlife.

you could always try FreeBSD ZFS Raid with some sort of X11 desktop on it or something like gnome or whatever I don't know, but i know ZFS is amazing for raid, or even a GNU/Linux would been a good idea with ext4 i guess with raid i know the newer ubuntu has zfs support not 2.0, but i mean that's something i guess /shrug