Raid is pants...Look inside and help

Turn raid on, then you selct which ports to run in RAID mode, maybe.
But from another thread on here the other day, with ports in raid mode apperently you can still boot from the ssd, and trim etc still all work as since its not in an array it just uses the port in pass through mode. But I have not got personal experience with this so i cant confirm how it works/if it will work on your board etc.
 
Ch3m1c4L said:
Turn raid on, then you selct which ports to run in RAID mode, maybe.
But from another thread on here the other day, with ports in raid mode apperently you can still boot from the ssd, and trim etc still all work as since its not in an array it just uses the port in pass through mode. But I have not got personal experience with this so i cant confirm how it works/if it will work on your board etc.
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Can I swap though and will the ssd still boot windows?
 
turning off ahci shouldnt stop windows booting, its only turning it on in BIOS and not windows that cocks up booting. There is no harm in just trying it, dont bother buildign an array on it at first, just change it to RAID mode and then try to boot, hopefully it will just work. If it does, then put your F1's on it and build a RAID 0 array, and make sure not to add the SSD in a moment of stupidness, and youll be fine.
 
that sucks. I havent used an intel controller for raid/ahci stuffs myself so I cant help with the steps youd need to go through to make it work :(
 
CaptainCrash said:
Did you press Ctrl+I to configure the RAID setup?
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Do I have to?

I thought it would just boot first?

Then I go and setup the raid....

When I choose Raid in bios then choose boot device the SSD is not there....

Choose ACHI mode and the SSD can be seen
 
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I guess if I changed to Raid I will have to reinstall the OS ? which I CBA to do.

Its a shame I can't assign two of the six sata ports to be raid.

But once you choose Raid all 6 sata ports are effected.
 
thats annoying, my nvidia controller I get to turn raid on/off on each port seperatly, but I dont have ahci :(
It is possible that you turn RAID on, then if you go into the RAID config bios that there you can configure which ports are for RAID and which are just pass through etc. Give it a go, will only take a few minutes. If its not that easy though I wouldnt bother unless you really care about getting every bit of performance out of your drives.
 
Ch3m1c4L said:
thats annoying, my nvidia controller I get to turn raid on/off on each port seperatly, but I dont have ahci :(
It is possible that you turn RAID on, then if you go into the RAID config bios that there you can configure which ports are for RAID and which are just pass through etc. Give it a go, will only take a few minutes. If its not that easy though I wouldnt bother unless you really care about getting every bit of performance out of your drives.
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Ahh thats a good point I will try that :)

I guess this is not to shoddy ...Faster than any single 1TB drive available. And that was my other option for the steam install.

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Looks like we have the same drives, on the same controller for the same use (steam)
lol.
What I dont get is why the read speeds arent much higher than a single drive. Seen other people getting much closer to 250-300mb read speeds on two 320 f1's. Makes me sad that my write speed is up at 180 but read is only 140, when I dont care about the write speed since steam cant download anywhere near that speed lol.
 
It should definitely work easyrider, mine is currently the other way around (SSD's in Raid, single F1 for storage) but I have both options showing up in the BIOS to boot from.

Go into the Intel Raid BIOS, is it detecting all of the drives? Are you using the lowest numbered ports?

There shouldn't be any need to reinstall. Drives that arent part of an array are treated as normal AHCI.
 
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Right,

I attached the 2 X F1's to sata port 5 and 6 enabled Raid in the bios. Went into the Raid BIOS and created a Raid0 stripe leaving the SSD out

I rebooted...Windows splash screen came on and then I got a BSOD and the PC restarted.
 
thats most likely a problem with ahci settings then. only assuming its that since if you turn it on in the bios and not windows it always BSOD's o boot stating inaccessible boot device, so doing it the other way on your board might do the same. Can either put win 7 disk in and let it repair, or turn controller back to ahci mode, then turn ahci off in windows and then turn raid back on and see if it works. But if the BSOD isnt a 0*0000007b one then im talking out my ass and it has nothing to do with any of this lol.
 
I have created a software Raid0 stripe in windows in disk manager to test speeds just out of interest.

Although the new software stripe doesn't like atto

Any ideas what else I can test the speed with? HD Tune only sees the single disks not the software raid volume
 
easyrider said:
Right,

I attached the 2 X F1's to sata port 5 and 6 enabled Raid in the bios. Went into the Raid BIOS and created a Raid0 stripe leaving the SSD out

I rebooted...Windows splash screen came on and then I got a BSOD and the PC restarted.
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Ok, When this happens it's because it doesn't have the right driver selected. Go back to AHCI mode and install the Intel RST drivers, then try again.

If that doesn't work things get a little more complicated, need to extract the driver files manually from the matrix storage manager installer and copy them into windows\System32/SYSWOW64\Drivers, then make a registry edit so that the appropriate service starts, but we'll cross that bridge if we come to it.
 
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