Mixed raid configuration

[corrado33]

I attempted to set up a mixed raid configuration on my new computer. I wanted to raid 2 drives and have a single drive that wasn't raided, but the motherboard wouldn't have it. 

 

I have as asus Z170 S motherboard. This is what I did.

 

I installed my single drive, installed windows, etc.

 

Shut down the PC, installed 2 raid drives, removed the single drive.

 

Then I ran the asus quick setup raid in the bios. It took me through setting up the raid with the 2 drives and that went well. (Well, if I'm honest, I first tried it with all 3 drives online, but the setup tool wouldn't let me deselect my one drive, so I had to physically disconnect it.)

 

Then when that was done I reinstalled my single drive, attempted to boot from it and nothing. Windows says it's crashed, gives me a blue screen, etc.

 

I think instead of using the quick setup in the bios I should have just used the Ctrl+I on startup and did the raid manually. Is that correct? I know lots of people have mixed raid setups. Or maybe it was just a driver issue with windows 10?

[r00tH4cK3r]

8 minutes ago, corrado33 said:

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What kind of RAID were you trying to setup? For example, it is entirely possible to have a single boot drive and 2 storage drives in a RAID 1 configuration

[corrado33]

2 minutes ago, r00tH4cK3r said:

What kind of RAID were you trying to setup? For example, it is entirely possible to have a single boot drive and 2 storage drives in a RAID 1 configuration

Yes, that's exactly what I was trying to do. Are other configurations NOT possible? Raid 0 + boot drive? Raid 10 + boot drive? Other raids I don't care about + boot drive?

[r00tH4cK3r]

1 minute ago, corrado33 said:

Yes, that's exactly what I was trying to do.

Are both of the drives the same storage size?

[zMeul]

what are you doing!?!?

 

get the controller in RAID mode, install Windows on the single drive

install Intel Rapid Storage software and setup the RAID matrix with the other 2 drives: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/25165/Intel-Rapid-Storage-Technology-Intel-RST-RAID-Driver?product=55005

 

boom .. done!

[r00tH4cK3r]

If both drives are the same size, boot into your windows 10 with the unraided drives installed. Right click on computer and go to manage. Navigate to disk management. Right click on the first drive you are trying to do a RAID 1, or mirror array with and click create mirror, then select the second drive, and click add mirror. The drives will then sync with each other. The amount of time this process takes depends on the size and the amount of data present on the drives. Once it finishes you are done.

 

If the two drives are new, then you right click on one of the drives and click create mirrored volume. Select second disk to add to the mirror array in the box that pops up. From there it is self explanatory, and if the drives are new the sync takes much less time to complete.

 

This is probably the easiest method for you to use.

[r00tH4cK3r]

3 minutes ago, zMeul said:

what are you doing!?!?

 

get the controller in RAID mode, install Windows on the single drive

install Intel Rapid Storage software and setup the RAID matrix with the other 2 drives: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/25165/Intel-Rapid-Storage-Technology-Intel-RST-RAID-Driver?product=55005

 

boom .. done!

I kind of assumed he had raid mode enabled. my bad.