Need help with sata Raid

[kleanthisky]

Hello

i just got 2x 1TB HDDs for my system. I wanted to use them in raid 0 as a storage option. My boot drive is an nvme samsung 960evo. The problem is when I enable RAID (Intel RST premium with optane support) for the 2 HDDs, my nvme drive is not recognized under the nvme configuration tab in bios and my boot drive list is empty.

 

When i boot my usb stick to install windows the nvme is shown but i cannot install on it (although i could install without the raid). Even if i manage to install windows with some kind of driver or disabling raid and enabling it later, how will i select boot device if the list is empty?

 

what can I do?

 

 

I have 
Gigabyte z270 Gaming K3

I7 7700k

16GB 3000Mhz Ram

960 evo 250GB

2x 1TB HDDs

 

thanks in advance

[BobVonBob]

If you aren't going to boot off of the RAID array and aren't going to use an OS other than Windows, it might be better in your case to go for Windows software disk striping. You can take the disks out of RAID in your BIOS, then use disk manager in Windows to create a striped volume across the two disks. You lose compatibility with other operating systems, but if that isn't an issue it should work fine.

[kleanthisky]

4 minutes ago, BobVonBob said:

If you aren't going to boot off of the RAID array and aren't going to use an OS other than Windows, it might be better in your case to go for Windows software disk striping. You can take the disks out of RAID in your BIOS, then use disk manager in Windows to create a striped volume across the two disks. You lose compatibility with other operating systems, but if that isn't an issue it should work fine.

Will I lose the data that is already stored inside the raid 0 drives?

[BobVonBob]

6 minutes ago, kleanthisky said:

Will I lose the data that is already stored inside the raid 0 drives?

Yes. I assumed you hadn't put any data on them since you couldn't get into Windows and they were wiped when you put them in RAID 0 anyway.

[kleanthisky]

1 minute ago, BobVonBob said:

Yes. I assumed you hadn't put any data on them since you couldn't get into Windows and they were wiped when you put them in RAID 0 anyway.

I somehow managed to boot into the already installed windows(after 100 startup repairs) before I downloaded windows iso to format