MSI Tomahawk B350 cant do RAID0

[deathlikeeric]

hey,

 

my friend just built himself a Ryzen 1700 build with a MSI Tomahawk B350, he wants to do Raid0 with his 2 128GB SSD but we can't get it working. In the bios there is a option to select Raid but can't do anything after that it doesn't let you select which type of raid you want of which drive you want to raid. As anyone figure this out yet? looking in the manual didn't help at all and couldn't find anything online.

[xentropa]

Usually there should be a key you have to press to enter the raid menu after the bios posts and before the windows logon screen.

 

For my old PC, there was like a 5 second window to press ctrl I after the mem test and all that other stuff finishes during boot.

[airdeano]

sure it does: https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/B350-TOMAHAWK.html#productSpecification-section

 

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Storage

• AMD® B350 Chipset
• 4 x SATA 6Gb/s ports*
- Support RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 10
• 1 x M.2 port (Key M)
- Supports PCIe 3.0 x4 (RYZEN Series Processors) or PCIe 3.0 x2 (7th Gen A-series/ Athlon™ processors ) and SATA 6Gb/s
- Supports 2242/ 2260 /2280/ 22110 storage devices

under the ez or advanced mode under SATA Mode, you can toggle between AHCI or RAID mode. once selected, you'll have to save and exit which will prompt a reboot. when rebooting, you'll have the option to configure the RAID array. or using the msi utility, you can setup super RAID. both are software solutions as also in the OS.

[deathlikeeric]

1 hour ago, airdeano said:

sure it does: https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/B350-TOMAHAWK.html#productSpecification-section

 

under the ez or advanced mode under SATA Mode, you can toggle between AHCI or RAID mode. once selected, you'll have to save and exit which will prompt a reboot. when rebooting, you'll have the option to configure the RAID array. or using the msi utility, you can setup super RAID. both are software solutions as also in the OS.

we had chosen the raid option in the bios but it never prompted anything after to set up the raid. we even had both drive on sata 1 & 2 as per specified in the manual. had seen on another forum to hold down crtl R to have the raid screen pop up will booting but the never worked.

[MeDownYou]

35 minutes ago, deathlikeeric said:

we had chosen the raid option in the bios but it never prompted anything after to set up the raid. we even had both drive on sata 1 & 2 as per specified in the manual. had seen on another forum to hold down crtl R to have the raid screen pop up will booting but the never worked.

hmm interesting, I've got this mobo- but no cpu for it atm picking up the 1600 when it comes out for my sig. build gimme a moment i'll pull out the manual

[NumLock21]

According to AMD, RAID support is through optimized drivers and NVMe drives are not supported.

From MSI, it's done through a utility call MSI Super RAID. The option only appear when it detects your system has 3 drives (1x OS + 2x storage). This feature can only work on the storage drives and not the OS. There is another feature call X-Boost which can increase the performance of a drive.

Took a lot at another one of their B350 board to see if there are any instructions on how to setup raid, there isn't. It has the same features as the board your friend has. On their X370 board, there is no instructions on how to setup raid, but in the manual there is a entry that says when you enable RAID, you must install the RAID driver, and the raid driver is included in the motherboard disc.

 

On Asus boards, can't find any RAID support info for their B350 boards. On their X370 boards, to enabled raid through UEFI, CSM needs to be disabled and RAID is configured through the RAIDXpert2 Utility inside the bios. For legacy RAID, through AMD's RAID Utility, during POST, press Ctrl+R.

Gigabyte B350 boards, there are instructions on how to setup RAID. For UEFI RAID, CSM needs to be disabled and RAID is configured through RAIDXpert2 Utility in the bios. For non UEFI RAID, it's done through the AMD Raid Utility, by pressing Ctrl+R during POST.

[Salacious B Crum]

I know I set my BIOS to raid, rebooted and created a striped 2 disk raid 0 in windows disk management, I have the msi x370 pro carbon