Hello all,
New to the site here and I had a question.
I just purchased a Samsung EVO 120GB SSD and two 1 TB WD blacks.
I want to use the SSD just for the OS, and the two WD Blacks for everything else (games, music, etc).
I currently have a Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 Motherboard. Currently, I have a OCZ 60GB SSD in sata port 0, and three 500GB drives in ports 1-3 in RAID 0. The bios lets me set sata ports 0-3 and 4-5 separately. Sata ports 0-3 are setup as "as RAID type". I plugged in the Samsung SSD into sata port 4 (wanted to run some benchmarks), which is set "as sata type" in BIOS, but whenever I go into Windows, Samsung Magician says it cannot communicate with the SSD. So I set the sata 4-5 as "IDE type" in bios, and Samsung magician can communicate with it, but says that the drive should be set as AHCI, and my performance benchmark seems to reflect that.
In two weeks, I am ditching the Gigabyte board and getting an ASRock 990FX Extreme9. both have the SB950. Needless to say, I will be doing a full OS reinstall. So my question is, when I get my new board, how can I properly set up the SSD to run in AHCI mode, and the 2x1TB drives as a RAID 0 setup? I read something about only having the SSD plugged in during Windows install (I will be using 7), and plugging in the HDDs and installing the RAID afterwards. I have read around the site that setting this up properly takes some steps, and I am kinda confused how to get this set up properly. Can someone please clarify how to properly set this all up?
Thanks much in advance.
New to the site here and I had a question.
I just purchased a Samsung EVO 120GB SSD and two 1 TB WD blacks.
I want to use the SSD just for the OS, and the two WD Blacks for everything else (games, music, etc).
I currently have a Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 Motherboard. Currently, I have a OCZ 60GB SSD in sata port 0, and three 500GB drives in ports 1-3 in RAID 0. The bios lets me set sata ports 0-3 and 4-5 separately. Sata ports 0-3 are setup as "as RAID type". I plugged in the Samsung SSD into sata port 4 (wanted to run some benchmarks), which is set "as sata type" in BIOS, but whenever I go into Windows, Samsung Magician says it cannot communicate with the SSD. So I set the sata 4-5 as "IDE type" in bios, and Samsung magician can communicate with it, but says that the drive should be set as AHCI, and my performance benchmark seems to reflect that.
In two weeks, I am ditching the Gigabyte board and getting an ASRock 990FX Extreme9. both have the SB950. Needless to say, I will be doing a full OS reinstall. So my question is, when I get my new board, how can I properly set up the SSD to run in AHCI mode, and the 2x1TB drives as a RAID 0 setup? I read something about only having the SSD plugged in during Windows install (I will be using 7), and plugging in the HDDs and installing the RAID afterwards. I have read around the site that setting this up properly takes some steps, and I am kinda confused how to get this set up properly. Can someone please clarify how to properly set this all up?
Thanks much in advance.