Raid is pants...Look inside and help

Ch3m1c4L said:
why are you using windows software raid, surely if your building the array in the intel raid config thing it should be using its "hardware" raid, so windows would only see the one drive?

I know its not really hardware raid btw.
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Just doing some testing to compare against the controller.

This is weird. When I enabled Raid in the bios and built the array in the raid bios and rebboted I got BSOD even after installing the the RST drivers.

So I went back in and enabled ACHI and rebooted.

I then saw a 1TB disk in disk management and ran some tests :confused:

Now its seen as an INTEL Raid volume although I have ACHI enabled in the bios not RAID

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Ch3m1c4L said:
maybe were wrong in thinking raid had ahci still and actually ahci has raid in it?
Only reason I can guess as to why its working now.
Your getting much nicer speeds now, might be worth me moving my f1s off the controller card and putting my ssd/optical drive on it, would have to test the ssd speeds on the controller though, dont want that to be getting hampered, but i imagine if not using the raid features it should just pss through and not get slowed down, but might add latency which would suck.

Glad you got it working now, and that it increased speeds so was in fact worth it and not just a waste of time :D
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Not sure how this can be though. I don't have raid enabled in the bios only ACHI.:confused:

I just left he array alone after I built it. But was amazed to see just one disk in disk management so I just created a simple volume

Is that burst speed normal? I'm a bit scared to be using this setup as it just shouldn't be working :eek:
 
^^^^ in testing I'm getting faster speeds using the onboard raid than creating a software stripe in windows.

Although I'm not sure why its working lol dues to not having Raid set in the bios.
 
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