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Yesterday I bought the 850 pro 512gb to act as my boot drive. Previously I was using an EVO as my OS boot drive. I cloned the drive successfully and Windows booted without any problems. I overclocked the CPU to 4.8GHz at 1.28v and ran stability test (x264 available on this forum) overnight without any problem. Now I have 2 Samsung EVO 500GB SSDs which I want to RAID 0 and use as a single drive (NOT FOR OS/BOOT). I followed the instructions given in the latest manual of the gigabyte Z270x gaming 7 rev 1.0 motherboard to RAID the two SSDs. At the end of the procedure the RAID array was there but the PC would go into BIOS at boot. There were no boot devices or Harddrive BBS priority options available or even the Boot override options. However in the SATA device configurations all 4 drives were being detected.
It seems that when in BIOS section, I select win 8/10 features to win 8/10 instead of other OS and disable CSM support, after saving and exiting the PC boots into the BIOS and no boot drives are available. This step was part of the procedure described in Chapter 3 of the manual in order to create a RAID array. However even after reverting the win 8/10 features to other OS, saving, exiting and reentering BIOS, there are no boot drives.
Fortunately, I had saved a profile after my OC stability test and loading it brought back the boot options. On booting, everything ran perfectly except for the Intel RST managment software which was giving errors that no drives were connected to 2 of the ports. I went into disk management of Win 10 and the RAID array was there and I could allocate/initialize it. But I was not satisfied. I wanted a hardware RAID. Also in the BIOS the Intel Rapid Storage option wasn't visible in the PERIPHERALS section so I could not delete the RAID array.
Going back into the BIOS, I had to select win 8/10 features In the BIOS section, SATA mode to Intel RST premium with Optane...... in the PERIPHERALS section, save/exit and then I could see the Intel RST option visible. I entered it and deleted the RAID array. Then I loaded my previous profile in order to get the Boot devices to show. So I'm back to square one.
How do I raid my 2 Samsung 850 EVO 500gb SSDs in RAID 0 while keep the 850 pro as my boot drive on this mobo? Help would be appreciated. BIOS, drivers are all upto date when I checked in the morning. Also would a software RAID be advisable in this scenario?
Yesterday I bought the 850 pro 512gb to act as my boot drive. Previously I was using an EVO as my OS boot drive. I cloned the drive successfully and Windows booted without any problems. I overclocked the CPU to 4.8GHz at 1.28v and ran stability test (x264 available on this forum) overnight without any problem. Now I have 2 Samsung EVO 500GB SSDs which I want to RAID 0 and use as a single drive (NOT FOR OS/BOOT). I followed the instructions given in the latest manual of the gigabyte Z270x gaming 7 rev 1.0 motherboard to RAID the two SSDs. At the end of the procedure the RAID array was there but the PC would go into BIOS at boot. There were no boot devices or Harddrive BBS priority options available or even the Boot override options. However in the SATA device configurations all 4 drives were being detected.
It seems that when in BIOS section, I select win 8/10 features to win 8/10 instead of other OS and disable CSM support, after saving and exiting the PC boots into the BIOS and no boot drives are available. This step was part of the procedure described in Chapter 3 of the manual in order to create a RAID array. However even after reverting the win 8/10 features to other OS, saving, exiting and reentering BIOS, there are no boot drives.
Fortunately, I had saved a profile after my OC stability test and loading it brought back the boot options. On booting, everything ran perfectly except for the Intel RST managment software which was giving errors that no drives were connected to 2 of the ports. I went into disk management of Win 10 and the RAID array was there and I could allocate/initialize it. But I was not satisfied. I wanted a hardware RAID. Also in the BIOS the Intel Rapid Storage option wasn't visible in the PERIPHERALS section so I could not delete the RAID array.
Going back into the BIOS, I had to select win 8/10 features In the BIOS section, SATA mode to Intel RST premium with Optane...... in the PERIPHERALS section, save/exit and then I could see the Intel RST option visible. I entered it and deleted the RAID array. Then I loaded my previous profile in order to get the Boot devices to show. So I'm back to square one.
How do I raid my 2 Samsung 850 EVO 500gb SSDs in RAID 0 while keep the 850 pro as my boot drive on this mobo? Help would be appreciated. BIOS, drivers are all upto date when I checked in the morning. Also would a software RAID be advisable in this scenario?