Z10PE-D8 WS Mobo/URGENT!! Trying to configure 2 samsung 950 m.2's in raid, help is ne

[AndBugBear]

Hello, My new build is complete, I am now trying to get the 2 samsung pro m.2's in raid but I have no option to do so.

I am now using the asus Z10pe-d8 ws mobo, All ram, Cpu's, everything is being detected properly, using latest bios that's on their site now as we speak.

One is in the actual m.2 slot of the motherboard, the other is with the Lycom pci-e X4 adapter, both are being picked up within the bios perfectly.

All my drives are picking up properly within the bios but for some odd reason, When I am trying to configure raid, the drives arn't showing up, I have as storage, my old 3 raptors, and they raid fine.

Could it be the limitation of the chipset itself???

I also did just for kicks, uninstalled all of my Sata Cables that were going to my other Storage devices, nope, didn't change squat.

I tried from LSI and Intel enterprise rapid configuration, all came up dead end.

I did downloaded the intel's nvme raid drivers from station-drivers.com.

All I need is to make the 2 m.2's, to put them in raid and try to make them at least bootable instead of doing it dynamically within windows as I might have no choice, any help would be excellent, thank you.

 

[bradly1101]

I found this... Is everything setup this way?

In the case of the Gigabyte board we are looking at today, we had to ensure that the 'Windows 8/10' mode was selected, as well as to *disable* CSM boot. These steps were detailed in the manual that came with the board, though they were a bit hidden in the 'SATA RAID' section.

http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Storage/Triple-M2-Samsung-950-Pro-Z170-PCIe-NVMe-RAID-Tested-Why-So-Snappy/Setup-and-Configu

 

[AndBugBear]

I found this... Is everything setup this way?



http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Storag...e-RAID-Tested-Why-So-Snappy/Setup-and-Configu

Hello and thank you for your reply, I think I did look at this once before and I just went back to my other system just very recently and I tried to disable CSM support and yes, I did get rst thingy within the bios but it only shows my 3 raptors, it does NOT show any of the 2 m.2's that I have installed,

Sorry, its a no go.

But I am asking like 4 other forums, your the first to respond, going to take some time, no biggie, thanks anyways.

 

[davidthemaster3]

I though RAID for m.2 PCIE drives was a z170 feature, because I think both M.2 drives need to connect through the chipset to be able to RAID. According to this image from the tweaktown's review the only PCIe going through the chipset is a single sata express port. All other PCIe communications go through the CPUs.

Also I think you should use Samsung's NVMe driver instead of Intel's.

 

[bradly1101]

Yeah, I'm wondering if your chipset supports it. Did you research this first? I know some Z170 boards allow it, but...

Since current chipsets fail to support M.2 PCIe RAID setups, we’ll need to setup a dynamic RAID array in Windows for our RAID0 array.

http://www.legitreviews.com/samsung-sm951-m2-pcie-ssds-raid0-performance_161753

 

[bradly1101]

Those drives would be great running in tandem without RAID. By putting the OS and data on one drive with programs and caches on the other, it would be smokin' (I've done this with an SATA SSD and an Intel 750).

 

[birthdaymonkey]

Those drives would be great running in tandem without RAID. By putting the OS and data on one drive with programs and caches on the other, it would be smokin' (I've done this with an SATA SSD and an Intel 750).

How did you set this up? By caches do you mean browser cache and swap file?

I'm moving to a double SSD system and would like to get as much performance out of it as I can, but I don't want the hassle of RAID.

 

[bradly1101]

How did you set this up? By caches do you mean browser cache and swap file?

Yeah the Photoshop and DX0 caches. I use my 750 for the swapfile, but on a dual 950 system it wouldn't matter too much - it should be on the fastest drive.