X570 Taichi--Setting up an SSD Raid
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Topic: X570 Taichi--Setting up an SSD Raid
Posted By: Navig
Subject: X570 Taichi--Setting up an SSD Raid
Date Posted: 23 Oct 2019 at 8:12am
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Hi all, putting together my X570 Taichi system, and I am looking for help to set up a RAID 0 on 2 Samsung 840 pro (500gb). New to Asrock, new to RAID arrays, but been building PCs since before the turn of the century. Hardware: Asrock Taichi X570 bios 2.10 Ryzen 3900X 2x16gb G.Skill TridentZ Samsung B-dies Nvidia GTX 980 Ti (in PCI slot #1) Corsair HX750 The hard drives: Main drive (Windows 10): Intel Optane 905p 960gb in PCI slot #3 Others: Intel 660p (2Tb) in M2_1 Samsung Evo 860 (1Tb) in M2_2 Samsung 840pro #1 (500gb) in Sata3_7 Samsung 840pro #2 (500gb) in Sata3_8 Seagate Barracuda pro 8Tb in Sata3_4 I am testing out/benchmarking the various hard drives listed, so any of these drives can be moved or removed except for the Windows drive. I want to set up a RAID 0 with the 2 Samsung 840 pros. Here is what I have done so far: I have gone into the bios and changed Storage configuration to RAID. As you can see all my hard drives are listed there:  But when I go into the RAIDXpert2 section, the -Create Array- section is greyed out and non-selectable.  Next I installed RAIDXpert2 (downloaded from AMD website, ver 9.2.0.127). I encountered the problem where the Submit button is grayed out. As per this post here: https://community.amd.com/thread/214160 I went into the device manager and pointed the updated drivers to drivers I downloaded from the AMD website (9.2.0.127). Submit is now selectable. When I enter the RAIDXpert2 software, I can see my 2 Samsung 840 pro?™s.  When I choose the Create a New Array option, no drives are selectable.  I appreciate any help with setting up RAID 0 on these 2 SATA SSD Samsung 840pros. I feel like there is some obvious step or simple task that I am not doing because I'm new to RAID arrays. My next step is to eliminate the NVME drives, maybe there is some sort of conflict? |
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Posted By: Ray62
Date Posted: 23 Oct 2019 at 4:08pm
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The "Delete Array" is not greyed. What is the state of the 2 Samsung 840 pros? I think these two drives needs to be initialized, so i would check if "Delete Array" can do that with these drives. Or first wipe the drives under windows and then retry the RAID configuration in the bios. ------------- Asrock Fatal1ty X370 Professional Gaming Offline Under test: MSI X570_MEG_ACE | AMD Ryzen 9 3900X | Scythe Mugen5 | 2x16GB F4-3200C14D-32GTZ@3466 | ASUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FE |
Posted By: Navig
Date Posted: 23 Oct 2019 at 4:22pm
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Thanks for reading and answering--you were right in your thought process. Here's what I did to get it to work! First of all, there were simple volumes and partitions on the Samsung 840 pros. I was benchmarking them as non-raid. So I removed the partition, then I removed the recovery partitions. Then in the Windows Software RaidXpert2, I went to the Disk-->Initialize and initialized both disks. After which they now appeared as selectable in the Create Array menu, so I was able to create the array. I can post my basic results once I compile my data if anyone is curious. Thanks! |
Posted By: gizmic
Date Posted: 23 Oct 2019 at 5:18pm
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wanna compare i'm on 860 evos ------------- 
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Posted By: Navig
Date Posted: 09 Nov 2019 at 4:32pm
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Ok! Here are some AS-SSD results: Here are some AS-SSD results: Intel Optane 905p 960gb in PCI slot #3  Intel 660p (2Tb) in M2_1  Samsung Evo 960 (1Tb) in M2_2  Samsung 840pro #1 (500gb) in Sata3_7  Samsung 840pro in RAID 0 (Sata3_7 and Sata 3_8)  Seagate Barracuda pro 8Tb in Sata3_4 
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