Raid 0 Setup problem

Nevakonaza · 3 Sep 2011 at 13:56

Hey guys,

Im having an issue trying to set up Raid 0.

I have two exact matching 250GB Seagate Barracuda 7200 Rpm,Sata2 drives. and the motherboard i have is a Gigabyte P55 US3L.

Ive followed exactly the instruction in the Motherboards Manual on how to Set up Raid..

1)Connect both drives to GSATA2_0 & GSATA2_1 ports on the mobo (Done)
2)Go into Bios...do the following...

Enable Onboard SATA/IDE Device (Done)
Set Onboard SATA/IDE Ctrl Mode to RAID/IDE (Done)

3)Save changes and exit Bios (Done)

But this is where im stuck after this,It says in the manual after the above to then restart the pc...and press CTRL+G to get the "Raid Setup Utility" but the problem is im hitting CTRL+G and nothings happening...its just booting into windows via my SSD.

Appreciate any help guys,First time setting up Raid!

rpstewart · 3 Sep 2011 at 14:08

Are you actually getting the "Press CTRL+G" message during POST?

Nevakonaza · 3 Sep 2011 at 14:10

rpstewart said:
Are you actually getting the "Press CTRL+G" message during POST?

Hi mate thanks for replying.

I dont actually know because it goes that fast,but i restarted like 3 times and from what i as actually able to see no i dont think its showing.

Surveyor · 3 Sep 2011 at 14:29

Drives definately connected to the GSATA ports?

They're the 2 white ones at the bottom of the motherboartd.

Nevakonaza · 3 Sep 2011 at 15:15

Surveyor said:
Drives definately connected to the GSATA ports?

They're the 2 white ones at the bottom of the motherboartd.

Hi,

Yes they were connected to the white ones,I reset my BIOS...re-done the above steps and now its showing...created Raid and everythings set up nicely,Ive just re-installed windows fresh as it was due soon anyway but il post back with a before Raid and after Raid 0 comparison. :cool:

EDIT-

Hows this look-

Single HDD

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Raid 0

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Surveyor · 3 Sep 2011 at 15:44

Nevakonaza said:
Hows this look-

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RAID 0 is an improvement over the single drive but I would have expected a bigger improvement.

It's probably the GSATA RAID controller which isn't as good as Intel's controller.

Unfortunately your motherboard doesn't support RAID on the Intel SATA ports.

Nevakonaza · 3 Sep 2011 at 16:14

Yeah i dont think its a bad improvement i mean the one drive is over 2 years old now,Not sure how old the other drive is as i brought it used off Fleebay.

I wonder why Gigabyte did not use an Intel controller on this board?