having issues with SSD's in RAID 0

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dual SAMSUNG EVO 840 SSD's (120 GB each) in RAID 0

BIOS setting is set to RAID, on startup it reads both SSD's as part of the RAID volume on the Intel RST page

problem: I only have 111 GB total storage.....

should it not be closer to 240?

does anyone have any ideas?
 
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it really sounds like you either have it at raid 1 and didnt catch that or only set a partition to use 50% of the space. Run diskmgmt.msc to see if theres unallocated space.

but yeah, the two advantages you get from raid0 is larger capacity and much higher sequential I/o which is not important to most users.
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im sure

it lists the 2 drives as member volumes of a RAID0 array (stripe)

im giving this info from memory as im at work and not on my PC.. but that was the first thing i checked
 
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Yea I said that in my original post..

Customer support at Samsung says that there is no measurable advantage to setting SSD's in RAID0... Can anyone confirm?
 
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Ok well that's good to know...
I get no benefit from having the RAID0 currently because it's not giving me extra storage...

GG I guess a format is coming
 
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it really sounds like you either have it at raid 1 and didnt catch that or only set a partition to use 50% of the space. Run diskmgmt.msc to see if theres unallocated space.

but yeah, the two advantages you get from raid0 is larger capacity and much higher sequential I/o which is not important to most users.
 
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