*Help* Need Information On SSD Raid

[Elite Knight]

Hello people, I am in need of help I want to setup my ssd's as raid 0 or 1 since I have an unused ssd in my pc with my main OS ssd Samsing 850 EVO 250gb. I tried copple months a go and it showed up as a regular HDD and I know you should not do that because windows thinks it's just a regular HDD and it might defrag the Raid or enable default caching ect.

 

I think I saw some post saying you should install Intel Rapid Storage before creating new partition in windows 10 install.

 

If so please let me know any help is helpful.

 

Elite Knight

[APasz]

If you have an Intel RAID chip, you'll need to install Intel's RST. What mobo do you have?

Windows (or any OS) doesn't know the difference between an array of HDDs or SSDs. The RAID controller bundles the drives and presents the bundle as a generic 'disk' to the OS.

The RAID controller will do any necessary defragging.

[Elite Knight]

MSI Z97 Pc Mate

Intel Core i7-4790

Gigabyte G1 Nvidia GTX1070 8GB

4 x Crucial 8GB DDR3 1600mhz = 32GB

750wat EVGA Supernova Titanium 80+

Corsair H55 Single Rad 120mm Cpu Cooler

1 Seagate Barracuda 3tb 7200rpm

2 x Samsung 850 EVO 250GB = 500GB

Acer Dual 1680x1050 22inch 75hz

Logitech G403 Wire/Wireless

Logitech Pro X Mechanical Cherry Blues

Razer Goliathus Speed Edition Extended

[APasz]

That mobo has an Intel RAID chip. Install RST.

[Kilrah]

Go in the BIOS, set up the array, done. 

 

No need to do anything special. You can install RST in Windows but it's not even needed, the manager will just allow you to see status etc but there's nothing needed for it to work fine, Windows has built-in drivers for it already. 

[Elite Knight]

It's just when I do that raid it shows up as if my SSD's were a 7200RPM drive and since windows treats SSD's and HDD diffrent due to SSD's cannot be used the same tho they are getting better each year.

 

So should I install Intel RTS before I start install windows.

Install RTS before creating a partition.

[APasz]

RST is just a utility. Not a driver.

The RAID array itself is setup in the BIOS. As you've already done.

 

Where does it say the array is a 7200rpm drive?

[Kilrah]

How do you know it sees a 7200rpm drive?