NVME Drives in Raid?

[richaoj]

Hello all.  Thanks in advance for any help.

 

My friend had a PC built by someone a number of years ago.  I can verify visually and in Bios that there are two NVME drives installed--both Samsung 960 EVOs.  He tells me he thinks they were once configured in RAID, but is not sure.  I don't see any evidence on the PC of any RAID software, e.g. AMD RaidExpert.  The system is running on a Gigabyte X470 board with a 2700x installed.

 

In windows, I only see one drive, even in Disk Man.  I downloaded RaidExpert and it says it can't do anything since Windows is installed.  In Bios, both have namespace 1 (I'm not sure what that means, but it makes me think it was RAID 1 at one point?).

 

Are we looking at a dead drive?  Or a previously configured RAID that is no longer configured?  Any thoughts?

[aDoomGuy]

Maybe the latter, an array that is no longer configured.

 

Check his BIOS somewhere for some term like NVMe RAID, it may delete his contents though.

[dilpickle]

nm

[richaoj]

Thanks all.  I ended up having to turn off NVME raid in Bios a couple of times to get it to take.  Finally.  I now see both NVME drives.