AMD RAID Drivers Not Functioning As Advertised?

[BerenElendil]

I've recently purchased two 1TB Sabrent Rocket SSDs, I've gotten them into a RAID 0 array, and have begun encountering an issue -- I've got the latest version of the RAID drivers, the latest Windows 10 install, but I can't seem to properly load the RAID drivers... if that's even what's occurring. I'm going through the steps described in the quick start manual AMD provides, I'm trying to load the drivers, and yet the computer isn't recognizing that the two SSDs are capable of having Windows 10 installed to them. Any help would be appreciated.

The loading bar for the drivers keeps filling to about 80-90% and jumping back to 0 about five times before I'm booted back to the drive select screen.

[Radium_Angel]

48 minutes ago, BerenElendil said:

RAID 0

 

48 minutes ago, BerenElendil said:

SSD

There is no point to doing this.

[Bombastinator]

11 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

 

There is no point to doing this.

Zero might be strong.  Close to zero I think probably isn’t though.  It certainly won’t help games or even most productivity stuff in a meaningful way while creating greater drive fragility.  RAID0 could turn 2 1tb drives into 1 2tb drive and if having 2tb is important enough to put up with the increased fragility ther could conceivably be a need.  I’m digging deep though.  It or possibly edge case productivity stuff is the only stuff I can personally think of.  
 

You make a good point that this being a true problem is so unlikely currently that perhaps justification for solving it should be acquired before even attempting to do need be bothered with.  In the vast majority of situations making this work does more harm than good.

Edited November 8, 2020 by Bombastinator

[BerenElendil]

7 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

There is no point to doing this.

Flexing and future-proofing is the only point I need. Games are gonna be utilizing high-speed storage more in the future, best to be ahead of the curve. If you have advice, maybe with regards to installing drivers through the Windows 10 install page, I'd appreciate it.

[Bombastinator]

4 minutes ago, BerenElendil said:

Flexing and future-proofing is the only point I need. Games are gonna be utilizing high-speed storage more in the future, best to be ahead of the curve. If you have advice, maybe with regards to installing drivers through the Windows 10 install page, I'd appreciate it.

So solve anyway.  Ok.  
I’m not that familiar with raid, but with what little ive got I suspect there isn’t enough info.  
 

There are several different types of implementation of raid, and not all of them even work with SSDs. Hardware raid vs software raid is one breakdown, but there are subsets beyond that I think. Some of them are motherboard specific.

[BerenElendil]

3 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

There are several different types of implementation of raid, and not all of them even work with SSDs. Hardware raid vs software raid is one breakdown, but there are subsets beyond that I think. Some of them are motherboard specific.

Alright then, I'll take a look in the BIOS again, see if I can't make it work with a different RAID setup.

[Bombastinator]

4 minutes ago, BerenElendil said:

Alright then, I'll take a look in the BIOS again, see if I can't make it work with a different RAID setup.

Do keep in mind that if it’s just a flex and a “futureproof” doing this will make your machine worse not better for at least most things.

[BerenElendil]

Good to know, thanks. For now I just need to get this working, I have some classwork I need to get done.