URGENT!!! Trying to configure 2 Samsung's 950 m.2's in raid, help is needed...

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  1. A M D BugBear

    A M D BugBear Ancient Guru

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    Ok, sorrie for the double post threads, I don't remember hitting both but anyways:

    Hello, My new build is complete, I am now trying to get the 2 samsung pro m.2's in raid but I have no option to do so.

    I am now using the asus Z10pe-d8 ws mobo, All ram, Cpu's, everything is being detected properly, using latest bios that's on their site now as we speak.

    One is in the actual m.2 slot of the motherboard, the other is with the Lycom pci-e X4 adapter, both are being picked up within the bios perfectly.

    All my drives are picking up properly within the bios but for some odd reason, When I am trying to configure raid, the drives arn't showing up, I have as storage, my old 3 raptors, and they raid fine.

    Could it be the limitation of the chipset itself???

    I also did just for kicks, uninstalled all of my Sata Cables that were going to my other Storage devices, nope, didn't change squat.

    All my drives are picking up properly within the bios but for some odd reason, When I am trying to configure raid, the drives arn't showing up, I have as storage, my old 3 raptors, and they raid fine.

    I tried from LSI and Intel enterprise rapid configuration, all came up dead end.

    I did downloaded the intel's nvme raid drivers from station-drivers.com.

    All I need is to make the 2 m.2's, to put them in raid and try to make them at least bootable instead of doing it dynamically within windows as I might have no choice, any help would be excellent, thank you.
     
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  2. A M D BugBear

    A M D BugBear Ancient Guru

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    Someone on the other forum gave me a reply with a url link to this site:

    http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Storag...e-RAID-Tested-Why-So-Snappy/Setup-and-Configu

    I think I did look at this once before and I just went back to my other system just very recently and I tried to disable CSM support and yes, I did get rst thingy within the bios but it only shows my 3 raptors, it does NOT show any of the 2 m.2's that I have installed, [​IMG]

    Sorry, its a no go.

    If anyone has any other advice, would be great.
     
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    Agent-A01 Ancient Guru

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    Not possible to create a bootable raid with your setup.

    Your only option is to create one within the OS.

    PCIe drives will not show up under intel RST, only drives directly connected to the intel SATA controller
     
  4. A M D BugBear

    A M D BugBear Ancient Guru

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    Ok, sorry for the long delay of not responding.

    I got them in dynamic mode and boy they are fast.

    Almost 4k read and write.

    4k, seems evo is a lil faster.

    Anyhow, I looked into other forums and I am using this method here:

    All games = Samsung M.2 Drives

    Main Os = Samsung 840 Evo's

    All backup = WD BLUE 3TB.


    The great news is that if I have to do a complete re-install of the os, all of my games are intact, and most of them are playable, don't have to re-install due to missing registry keys,etc.

    I also got another problem, well could be, This is off topic, it has to do with my cpu's, so please check other thread, thanks.
     

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