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paulcam

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I have two matching Samsung SSD drives I want to setup in RAID, with a Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 Rev 4.0 motherboard.The bios is configured to raid drive setup They are installed and recognized as drives 0 and 1. So far so good. I load Windows 7 Ultimate, custom install - all is good. But when I get to the drive selection window I get the message that "no device drivers found" I search for the raid driver on the mobo install disk, (can't find any useful info in the manual), find the raid driver but windows start up will not recognize it. Windows start up will recognize them when not in raid configuration but not in raid configuration. What am I missing?
 
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How are you planning to use the two in RAID 0? If you're a regular end user or a gamer, you won't get any benefit out of a RAID 0. Hell, even if you edit video you won't get any benefit, unless you're recording like several HD cameras at once. I edit gameplay videos at 1080p and 60fps with a single 840 250GB, and it works perfectly fine. I use an HDD as scratch and another HDD to render to and a 14 min video at 1080p and high profile renders in like 30-40 min, since at that point its just using cpu, ram and gpu.

and here's a Tom's hardware article about Single vs Raid SSD: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-raid-benchmark,3485.html
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I've gotten a little further, found the appropriate raid driver and loaded it. Now start up is asking for 32 bit or 64 bit signed drivers ( 64 bit windows7 is what I"m installing, so I assume it's 64 bit divers I'm looking for)....from which disc - mobo or windows disc it doesn't specify?
 
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paulcam

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Doesn't like the driver on the mobo disk, doesn't like the new downloaded driver. All I want to do is run two drives as one, not solve the riddle to the existence of the bloody universe. You know what..............screw it. NOT WORTH THE TROUBLE!!!
 
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This is what I'm looking at when I go through my Raid drives. Now to set it up right after setting RAID in the BIOS there's a screen that'll have the drives laid out. That's when you choose the Raid array. For me to set it up its control I. This program is just to manage them.
 
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How are you planning to use the two in RAID 0? If you're a regular end user or a gamer, you won't get any benefit out of a RAID 0. Hell, even if you edit video you won't get any benefit, unless you're recording like several HD cameras at once. I edit gameplay videos at 1080p and 60fps with a single 840 250GB, and it works perfectly fine. I use an HDD as scratch and another HDD to render to and a 14 min video at 1080p and high profile renders in like 30-40 min, since at that point its just using cpu, ram and gpu.

and here's a Tom's hardware article about Single vs Raid SSD: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-raid-benchmark,3485.html
 
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