Hello. Today, I bought a new components for my HTPC and as usual, I went with Gigabyte Motherboard. This time, I bought an AMD board: GA-F2A88XN-WIFI. Besides the board, I bought a Kingston Fury 120 GB SSD and 2x Seagate Barracuda 3TB disks. The idea was to use SSD for OS and applications and 2x 3TB HDDs in RAID0 for storage. I finally managed to put everything together, and I wanted to install OS to it. However, this is where my problems started. I never actually done SSD+HDD RAID0 on a same PC. I run my main PC on 2x256GB SSD in RAID0 without problem, so I thought, this would be a piece of cake as well. Well, I thought wrong :-( I need your help please. I plugged the HW the following way: Port0 SSD Port1 LG BlueRay, DVD, CD ROM Port2 and Port3 Seagate's HDDs When I choose RAID as controller in BIOS, I can enter the Raid configuration and create an array from disk 2 and 3 (HDDs) but it only gives me 2.1TB total. Also, when I reboot, I no longer see SSD in the list of boot options, therefore, I cannot install OS. I am really struggling here, I have no idea how to make this work. I would really appreciate the help. On a different topic, I bought Kingston HyperX Savage 2.8GB 2400mhz memory. When I select XMP profile 1 for 2400 settings, the pc won't boot and I have to load bios defaults to make it boot at least to BIOS. XMP profile 2 2133mhz works fine. Why is this happening? I really hope what I am trying to do here is manageable, because I would really be disappointed if it doesn't work :-( Thank you for your suggestions and answers. Thank you in advance.
Also you can ask here http://www.win-raid.com/forum.php Btw, has the BIOS special settings for boot device order? Have you tried to connect HDDs to 0 and 1 ports, SSD to 2 port, ODD to 3 one?
Been a while since I played with RAID, so can't remember, but do all SATA ports allow RAID or are only certain ports designated for it?
All ports are capable of RAID. It's a matter of whether or not the chipset/controller allows the ports to be used for RAID.
Yea that's what I meant, not the actual ports but whether or not the machine allows those ports to be used for RAID From looking at the specs on the boards site, it says 4 x SATA 6Gb/s ports which are available for RAID0 along with others Chipset: 4 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors Support for RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, and JBOD
