Help with raid

[Wolf_Lbh]

50 minutes ago, samiscool51 said:

try a RAID card, if it is doing the same thing the mother board is not letting windows see the drives at a bit level, if that's the case that i can't fix you will have to get a RAID card that lets windows see the drives on a bit level

I went into the rog bios uefi bios and unraided my ssds, erasing them once again.

Then I tried every possible combination and got my ssds plugged into sata 1 & 2 and raided them. Then I plugged in my hdds in sata 3 & 4 and still one got merged in disk manager.

Then I plugged my hdds into another port and now they show up as e1 and e2 and one is still merged.

I don't understand why this won't just work! I'm not telling it to combine a ssd and a hdd so why is it doing it??????

[samiscool51]

try updating your mother board BIOS this might be a bug that might of gotten fixed

[Wolf_Lbh]

Okay, I figured out what was wrong. Turns out that the first time I raided them because all the drives were plugged in it setup some files on a hdd which made it basically a partition or pre-raided to a ssd or something. I figured it out by raiding just the ssds, then plugging everything in when I went to install windows. I figured it might detect the hdds better if it installed with them in.

Then when I went to install the os it showed all the partitions that already existed so I just deleted them all and was left with 1 ssd and 2 hdds. Installed the os and mounted the 2 hdds in disk manager and I have 1ssd shown and 2 hdds now.

I assume that means it is raided and ready. Or else I am just down an ssd but up a hdd.

[samiscool51]

RAID tricks the os into see only one drive, but the way cheaper RAID chips work they don't let the os see the drives at a bit-level, this prevents the computer getting SMART data to see the drives health, most RAID chips let the os defrag/trim the drives if the chip supports it