Author: maurizio
Subject: How to create Samsung 950 Pro RAID 0, Z170 OC F?
Posted: 04 May 2016 at 8:22am
I have four other storage drives that I want attached to the SATA ports. I've been using them the past few years. Plus, my boot SSD and another HDD take up 2 SATA ports. So that's all 6 of the Intel SATA ports.
Yes, if the Samsung 950 Pros are attached to the motherboard via the Ultra M.2 slots, they show up in the UEFI on a storage configuration page section for IRST RAID management. RAID 0 can be set up there.
Once it is set up, when you boot into Windows, Windows then sees those two drives as a single drive. (As I recall--I haven't set it back up that way again now.)
The other drives also show up on that UEFI storage options IRST RAID management page as choices for incorporation into any RAID configuration you might want. The problem I was originally asking about was why the Samsung 950 Pros do NOT show up there when they are attached via PCIe adapters. They only show up there when attached to the Ultra M.2 slots.
Subject: How to create Samsung 950 Pro RAID 0, Z170 OC F?
Posted: 04 May 2016 at 8:22am
 clubfoot wrote:If you only use 2x m.2 in RAID0 you should still have two Intel SATA ports available to RAID your HDDs. If you're only using one SSD and one HDD then you're good to go. |
I have four other storage drives that I want attached to the SATA ports. I've been using them the past few years. Plus, my boot SSD and another HDD take up 2 SATA ports. So that's all 6 of the Intel SATA ports.
| If you can see the m.2s in the IRST menu in the BIOS can you create a RAID array? Do you also see the SSD and HDD in the menu? If you can create the RAID array and it does not show up in Windows then your issue is Windows 7. It needs a KB patch. There is one for usb ver 2.0.9 on the download page. Of course you could also upgrade to Windows 10 64-bit :) |
Yes, if the Samsung 950 Pros are attached to the motherboard via the Ultra M.2 slots, they show up in the UEFI on a storage configuration page section for IRST RAID management. RAID 0 can be set up there.
Once it is set up, when you boot into Windows, Windows then sees those two drives as a single drive. (As I recall--I haven't set it back up that way again now.)
The other drives also show up on that UEFI storage options IRST RAID management page as choices for incorporation into any RAID configuration you might want. The problem I was originally asking about was why the Samsung 950 Pros do NOT show up there when they are attached via PCIe adapters. They only show up there when attached to the Ultra M.2 slots.