Hello, My new build is complete, I planned this build for quite sometime now.
I am now trying to get the 2 samsung pro m.2’s in raid but I have no option to do so.
I am now using the asus Z10pe-d8 ws mobo, All ram, Cpu’s, everything is being detected properly, using latest bios that’s on their site now as we speak.
One is in the actual m.2 slot of the motherboard, the other is with the Lycom pci-e X4 adapter, both are being picked up within the bios perfectly.
All my drives are picking up properly within the bios but for some odd reason, When I am trying to configure raid, the drives arn’t showing up, I have as storage, my old 3 raptors, and they raid fine.
Could it be the limitation of the chipset itself???
I also did just for kicks, uninstalled all of my Sata Cables that were going to my other Storage devices, nope, didn’t change squat.
I tried from LSI and Intel enterprise rapid configuration, all came up dead end.
I did downloaded the intel’s nvme raid drivers from station-drivers.com.
All I need is to make the 2 m.2’s, to put them in raid and try to make them at least bootable instead of doing it dynamically within windows as I might have no choice, any help would be excellent, thank you.
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Someone on the other forum gave me a reply with a url link to this site:
http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Storage/Tri…tup-and-Configu
I think I did look at this once before and I just went back to my other system just very recently and I tried to disable CSM support and yes, I did get rst thingy within the bios but it only shows my 3 raptors, it does NOT show any of the 2 m.2’s that I have installed,
Sorry, its a no go.
If anyone has any other advice, would be great.
@FernandosBugBear :
According to the reports from several users with an Intel chipset system it is not easy to get PCIe/M.2 connected SSDs running together with an Intel RAID configuration. Maybe this requires a BIOS update done by the mainboard’s manufacturer.
Have you already tried the latest Intel NVMe drivers v4.5.0.2122 (look >here<)? It seems, that you have to run your Intel SATA RAID Controller in RSTe mode (DEV_2826 or DEV_2827).
I was also looking into this as win 10 has similar stuff:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/36504/how…y-in-windows-7/
Also, When I mentioned about the intel nvme drivers, in the beginning, I thought it was for the raid/chipset to get it to work properly, instead, it was for intel’s ssd’s and not for samsung.
I did downloaded the pure samsung nvme drivers from here though and I might give that a shot after I dynamically raid within windows.
Seems I might have no choice:
Dynamically raid within windows, then try to re-install windows from there, it should work, I don’t see why it shouldn’t.
have never done thins method before.
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Ok sorrie for the long delay, This is what I have done on my new system that I built for months now:
I am using 2 of the existing samsung 840 evo ssd’s in raid 0 for the main OS and files, Using 2 Samsung 950’s M.2’s in RAID Stripe mode but in dynamic mode.
All my games are being loaded from my M.2’s whereas the Main OS and its files is from the 2Xsamsung 840 evo’s.
Since this is the only way for now for this motherboad.
Thanks for your help BTW.
@FernandosBugBear :
Thanks for your delayed feedback.
It is fine, that you are satisfied with the usage of your 2 Samsung 950 Pro NVMe SSDs running in a Software RAID0 (the creation of an Intel RAID0 array would require a Z170 chipset).
By the way: >Here< is my report about my personal experiences with the creation of an Intel RAID0 array using 2 Samsung NVMe SSDs.