HELP - Setting up RAID 0

petapacket · 31 Jul 2012 at 16:41

Hi.

I own P77P5 - LX motherboard, i bought two OCZ Agility 3 SSD. I plugged them into motherboard with SATA III cables. They were detected fine.

First attempt, entered BIOS and chose RAID over IDE. Then booted Windows 7 -> Control panel -> Administrative Tools -> Disk Management. I setup the two drives as striped in NTFS format, they change colour and become one. I insert Windows 7 installation disk in CDROM drive, then reboot. During install i cannot pick my new striped dynamic drive.

Second attemp, after reading someone's post which stated; separate the drives, install W7 on one then strip it with the other. I followed this procedure after separatin the drives, making them 'unallocated'. After install i try to strip them, option is gray.

WHAT AM I DOING WRONG, PLEASE ADVISE.

Thank you.

coupe69 · 31 Jul 2012 at 16:59

You need to setup the RAID array from within the RAID BIOS, should be CTRL+I at the pre-os splash screen. Configure to RAID 0 and save then install your OS on your newly configured RAID 0 array.

petapacket · 31 Jul 2012 at 20:52

Will try to get that menu up. Not heard of it before.

petapacket · 31 Jul 2012 at 20:56

I tried, CTRL + l does nothing.

Please advise, i'd very much like to begin reaping the benefits of the SSD model .

coupe69 · 31 Jul 2012 at 21:36

What's the exact make & model of your mainboard?

Virdi · 31 Jul 2012 at 21:43

petapacket said:
I tried, CTRL + l does nothing.

Please advise, i'd very much like to begin reaping the benefits of the SSD model .

'i' for India or 'l' for Lima....?

petapacket · 1 Aug 2012 at 12:22

Hi, i resolved the installation, turns out it was CTRL + i. My motherboard is the ASUS P7P55 LX.

I should theoretically get x2 i/o sequential, so why am i coming up short? I'm getting about 500mbps io.

wazza300 · 1 Aug 2012 at 12:26

what ports are you on? and try turning of usb3 if you have it,i think it affects sata speed not sure on that mb

FunkyCowie · 1 Aug 2012 at 12:30

RAID for an OS drive only works from the RAID bios (CTRL+i or CTRL+f after initial post is typical) as you are accessing the onboard chip.

The main bios or uefi will also need to be set for raid to enable the onboard chip.

It sounds like you were trying to use windows built in software raid which is processor intensive to run windows... which is impossible as you need windows running to run it.

petapacket · 1 Aug 2012 at 15:19

It is installed as a striped volume in RAID 0 using ASUS firmware. Windows also recognises it as a continous logical stripped version of the two drives.