Author: eComposer
Subject: RAID Setup Menu
Posted: 02 Jan 2017 at 6:32pm
Subject: RAID Setup Menu
Posted: 02 Jan 2017 at 6:32pm
 parsec wrote:So you can create the RAID 0 array with the Intel utility in the UEFI/BIOS, and you can see it in the Intel utility if you restart the PC, but nothing at all in the Windows installation process? I forget, are you using Win 7? I can't believe Samsung changed something with the 960 series... so I get to buy two 960s to check this?!  I doubt that is true.Another reason I am (was) less than thrilled about the RAID 0 of NVMe SSDs, is they tended to be... delicate, as I termed it. What I mean is, if you had one created and Windows installed on it, if you simply cleared the UEFI/BIOS, the RAID 0 array would fail on the following restart of the PC. That would never happen with SATA drive RAID arrays. That seems to have been fixed with an update to the UEFI, by keeping the PCIe Remapping options alone during a UEFI/BIOS clear. If you have a Windows installation on another drive, try creating the RAID 0 array of 960s in the UEFI, and then boot from the other OS. In Windows, check if Disk Management sees the RAID 0 array and lets you format it. Don't forget the SATA ports are shared with the M.2 slots. If you have SATA drives connected to the shared ports, the M.2 SSDs won't work correctly. |
Hello parsec,
Good news - finally got the RAID 0 to work. Essentially stripped the whole PC to components and rebuilt (except CPU). Also cleared cmos, and only connected the 960 Evo SSDs. The followed the same procedure as you outlined that I'd done for the past couple of days over and over and over... LOL.
No idea what caused the challenges, but hopefully taking everything to square one fixed whaterver it was.
Re operating system, I'm running Windows 10 64 bit.
Re the Sata ports and the M 2 slots, fully aware of this, and have been careful not to "double book". My build plan took this into account. Incidentally I use the 1 and 3 M 2 slots, given the GPU covers the "2" slot, and thought it would make sense to minimize heat given both may get hot if I drive them hard enough. Heat and noise are major challenges for sound recording. :)
Anyway, thanks for the input. Having all the steps laid out by you was helpful in that no one else commented about clearing the CMOS, which makes a lot of sense.
ASRock should surely provide this wisdom in the documentation. It would have been so much easier just having all the steps you laid out provided as a matter of course. Although I suppose it's only the enthusiasts and "professionals" who want this kind of firepower that would be looking for this info. Still, I'm guessing as time moves forwards, that using this kind of approach will become increasingly popular once users wake up and realize the benefits, and also as the pricepoint for these kinds of SSDs becomes more accessible.