No RAID option in BIOS

[MooseKnuckle]

This is my first time attempting a RAID so I could very well be missing something

 

Asus ROG Crosshair VII

 2X 250 GB Samsung Evo 960s NVME

 

the drivers are recognized and I did get Windows loaded on one of them just to make sure. I have since formatted the drive. 

 

All other driver are disconnected

 

Latest BIOS installed (0601) however I tried 

 2 older versions

 

So there videos I watched have me hit F11 to enter EZ tuning wizard. There is no RAID option there, only the OC

 

I also went to advanced- SATA Config and changed SATA to RAID and enabled NVMe mode. 

 

Where do I go from here?  

 

Thanks. 

[Electronics Wizardy]

Why are you using raid? 

 

Id just return those drives and get a single bigger faster drive(bigger drives are faster aswell).

 

Alsoget a the 970 evo, its faster and newer.

 

Motherboard raid sucks and really shouldn't be used.

 

There is a raid menu that you need to enter to configure raid.

[Tokyo_Raven]

3 minutes ago, MooseKnuckle said:

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NVMe RAID is not avaliable on consumer hardware like Ryzen, Intel 8th gen.

Only on workstation or enthusiast hardware like Ryzen Threadripper, Intel 7th gen enthusiast line, Xeon...

Just return drives and get bigger SATA 3 SSD, mobo RAID sucks.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, Tokyo_Raven said:

NVMe RAID is not avaliable on consumer hardware like Ryzen, Intel 8th gen.

Only on workstation or enthusiast hardware like Ryzen Threadripper, Intel 7th gen enthusiast line, Xeon...

Just return drives and get bigger SATA 3 SSD, mobo RAID sucks.

you can do nvme raid on basically any board with pcie with software raid.

 

For the motherboard raid z270 supports it just fine and rzyen am4 does aswell. 

[Tokyo_Raven]

2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

you can do nvme raid on basically any board with pcie with software raid.

 

For the motherboard raid z270 supports it just fine and rzyen am4 does aswell. 

True. I thought he was talking about bootable NVMe raid.

[MooseKnuckle]

This motherboard does support it. There is a video detailing the process with the same mobo, cpu, and SSD, albeit 500gb version. I'm literally just missing the option to setup the raid. 

 

Returning is no option anyways. I bought the hardware almost 2 months ago when I was overseas, and then I got extended so I'm going to work with what I got. 

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, Tokyo_Raven said:

True. I thought he was talking about bootable NVMe raid.

you can do that on z270 in windows. Your just doing it over the dmi.

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, MooseKnuckle said:

This motherboard does support it. There is a video detailing the process with the same mobo, cpu, and SSD, albeit 500gb version. I'm literally just missing the option to setup the raid. 

 

Returning is no option anyways. I bought the hardware almost 2 months ago when I was overseas, and then I got extended so I'm going to work with what I got. 

normally you need to do something like pres control + r to setup the raid at bootup.

 

But id just use one drive for the os and the other for games and other files. Or sell the second.

[MooseKnuckle]

When I got Ctrl r at startup, I do get a raid setup but no nvme options. When I plug in my 3 SATA drives, they show up there. 

 

Would it work if I lost Windows on my SATA drive, then configure the nvme drives from Windows and try installing it again on the raid?

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, MooseKnuckle said:

When I got Ctrl r at startup, I do get a raid setup but no nvme options. When I plug in my 3 SATA drives, they show up there. 

 

Would it work if I lost Windows on my SATA drive, then configure the nvme drives from Windows and try installing it again on the raid?

that won't work as you need to configure the raid in the bios/firmware.

 

 

[velasariusx]

Here is how I RESOLVED it. 

 

1. I attached a spare SSD and installed Windows on it from a USB drive.
2. I didn't installed the NVME manufacturer drivers.
3. I cleared both NVMEs so they were no allocated volumes.
4. I downloaded AMD NVME Bottom drivers to USB and updated Drivers
5. Loaded AMD SSD Bottom Drivers on a USB
6. Set the NVMEs to RAID in Bios (SATA should remain as Non-Raid option)
7. Ran AMD Raid package RaidXpert2
8. Initialized the NVMEs and created the Raid in RaidXpert2
9. I ran Windows install from USB drive.
10. I loaded the NVME Bottom drivers. The two NVMEs disappear from installer option.
11. I loaded the NVME Raid Controller. The two NVMEs reappear as a single drive.
12. I installed Windows.

The #1 tip you must always look out doing all this is never allow the NVMEs, the USB Windows installer to become the C:\ drive. Also keep in mind that the SSD you install on initially will be C:\ drive but when you're ready to install on the RAID, it's best to remove it from the computer. At this point, the USB installer might become C:\. Always look out for this and you can use the DiskPart utility to CLEAN, and Reassign letters. Also, when you're ready to install Windows on the Raid, Windows might refuse because the raid is not GPT partition map. You can also correct this during the installer and use the 'convert gpt' command to resolve this. 

 

Good luck, this guy is going to have a few cigarettes it's been an extremely long day.