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M.2 with RAID help

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Hey! So have been trying to get something working... I recently built a really awesome PC running off of an m.2 boot drive. (Samsung 950 pro 256gb) works great. I went to create a raid on three Western Digital Red Pros but when I did my m.2 seemed to disappear from bios. I am running a Asus ROG Maximus VIII mobo. Ideas on how to get this working? Or at least tell my why it won't

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NVMe or SATA?

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Hey! So have been trying to get something working... I recently built a really awesome PC running off of an m.2 boot drive. (Samsung 950 pro 256gb) works great. I went to create a raid on three Western Digital Red Pros but when I did my m.2 seemed to disappear from bios. I am running a Asus ROG Maximus VIII mobo. Ideas on how to get this working? Or at least tell my why it won't

Is one of your sata drives sharing the same pci lane as the M.2 drive?

Normally you can only use one or the other. Check your manual to see which one it is.

It's not a race to the bottom.

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Is one of your sata drives sharing the same pci lane as the M.2 drive?

Normally you can only use one or the other. Check your manual to see which one it is.

I talked to ASUS Support (very unhelpful) and they said that the m.2 takes up lanes 1 and 2. I have my drives plugged into 3 4 and 6.

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I talked to ASUS Support (very unhelpful) and they said that the m.2 takes up lanes 1 and 2. I have my drives plugged into 3 4 and 6.

I would have suspected the last ports not the first ones.

Normally out of 6 sata ports it would be sata port 5 or 6 that shares lanes with pci-e.

Port 1-4 would be Intels own lanes.

It's not a race to the bottom.

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