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Hard drive not showing up under Raid

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  • Productivity
  • Hard Drives
  • Computers
  • Storage
  • NAS / RAID
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August 13, 2014 11:02:01 AM

I recently purchased some new computer components trying to increase my productivity and was just needing a upgrade. I started with a new motherboard ASUS Z97-PRO, CPU Intel 4790K, and two SSD's Samsun 840 Evo's.

Before installing my operating system (Windows Pro 64), I created a raid 0 with the two samsung SSD's. After about a month of filling up another internal 3TB hard drive the drive became corrupted and lost everything on it.

Seeing that I didn't want this to happen again I purchased two more 3TB hard drive, both the same brand of the other and as close to the model as possible. When I tried to create another raid (both off the motherboard controller) one of the hard drives didn't show up and didn't have the full disk space available under Disk Management. After lots of hours researching I came across a fix to unlock the additional space of the one HD that had the issue but still did not have the ability to create a raid under the BIOS.

Any idea what the reason would be for seeing the hard drive under Disk Management but not in the BIOS?

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August 13, 2014 11:35:53 AM

If you can't see it in the bios you shouldn't be able to see in in the OS... Do you have the latest FW installed for MB?

On another note running SSD's in raid 0 give you no gain in performance. Okay it "might" but it is so marginal it is not worth the effort IMO. It took me a allot of convincing to get on board too - look at the benchmarks. The other think I want to point out is you are running the risk of losing everything running RAID 0 as if one drive goes everything does. I have two EVO's and am just running them as separate drives.

You are investing time into something that is not giving you any performance benefits. You would gain more by investing time in a backup system than RAID IMO.
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