Unable to do a Raid 0

Franco_cov

Franco_cov

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Hi Guys,

This is driving me nuts now I have read several explanations on how to do this and even followed the manual and still no luck this is what I have and done:

2 x 240gb Intel 520 ssd's
Asus Rampage Extrenme IV

1)Plugged both ssd's into the 2 6gb (red) intel connector and cd/dvd in a 3gb slot
2)Gone into Bios turned raid on (was originally ahci)
3)CTRL+I on boot and created a raid 0
4)Then boot using windows dvd, click on english language and then next

** before i even select the version of windows 7 i want to install i get a window that says i need a cd/dvd driver??

So assuming it was the iastor driver i inserted a usb with the x64 bit version as thats the version of windows i want to install and it just says failed to install, but if i select x86 version it works which is no good for me.

I have tried x64 bit drivers for various sources and cant get it to work

Any idea's please?:mad::mad::mad:

NB> I did remove all my other drives all that was plugged in was the 2 ssd's and my cd/dvd combo drive
 
**THANKS FOR SPEEDY REPLY**

I understand what your saying but seems weird why it accepts 32 bit drivers and not 64bit?

I have never updated the bios from when it first came out so I guess I am just scared i **** it up :)
 
Guys,

I have managed to get raid 0 working with my 2 intel 520 240gb drives had to install windows using a usb drive and this did the trick.

However if I look in my device manager on windows 7 i only see the following:-

Standard AHCI 1.0 Serial ATA Controller x 2

What happened to the intel driver? and if i load up intel toolbox everything is greyed out and cant select anything?
 
I dont know how to upload pics on here, however I just did a test loading shangai on BF4 and it took 40 secs!!! it took 15 secs on a single SSD lol so surely would be faster on a raid 0 not slower?
 
I don't understand I used the iastor driver and it detected the c600 Intel sata controller. I don't mind installing os again as long I can get the speeds expected of a ssd. Where do I get software from ?
 
Where do you set the irst then? So if I install os on 1 drive it boots up to the Ctrl + I for raid do I just leave that then install windows then install Intel drivers and tools from where and where do I do the irst and how to get raid 0 after installing on one drive? As I thought creating raid erases the disks?
 
OK I installed the "Intel® Rapid Storage Technology (Intel® RST) RAID Driver" by downloading the SetupRST.exe Version: 12.9.0.1001

And I get an error message "Platform not supported"?
 
well i say yes, but i was just trying o install the utility to make sure i got the right one before erasing my os and starting again.

I am still running my previous raid 0 i created but just thought the utility would still install so that I had an idea on what to expect?
 
OMG................. Think I have found where we was going wrong..

We almost got the sequence right...

I found in BIOS that when you select Raid you then have a selection either rtse or IRST

I was using the RSTe and that was giving me the wrong chipset drivers hence why the IRST software was throwing errors...

Now when i use IRST in BIOS and then install to one drive i notice i get the ICH etc.. and the IRST software now installed and then created the volume and it copied the data across and now I have (I think) a fully working raid 0 that now also shows in the Intel Toolbox as SSD where as before toolbox never seen them as ssd.

So I did a quick AS SSD benchmark and got score of over 1200 is this expected?

The read was 900+ mb/s and the write was 500+ mb/s
 
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