RAID 0 Samsung 950 pro on Rampage V Extreme

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Hello,

So i've been sturggeling setting up Raid 0 on my Rampage V extreme and i cant seem to figure out what im doing wrong.

My setup:
Rampage V extreme
Intel 5820k
Sapphire r9 290 Tri-x oc
16 GB Corsair Veangance DDR4 2400mhz
2x Samsung 950 Pro 256 GB
2x Samsung 850 evo 500gb
Windows 10 x64

I have 1 logical m.2 port available on my motherboard and the second card is inserted in a Asus Hyper m.2 x 4 mini expansion card. Both windows and my bios detect the drives but i do not get an option to set the drives up as Raid (no Intel Rapid Storage technology) button in the advanced tab of my Bios or anywhere. The PCI expansion card is inserted the same position this person already got m.2 in raid 0 to work: http://rog.asus.com/361862014/rampage-motherboards/m-2-pci-express-ssd-raid-0-performance-on-rampage-v-extreme/

I checked every guide i could find to see if i could find a way to get it to work but none of the changes i could do helped. Putting SATA in to raid just gave me access to putting my SATA SSD's in RAID. turning of CSM gives an VGA error and my mobo manually switches back to CSM enabled.

Im sure i'm not the only person with this problem so if this question gets asked
a lot sorry in advance. Any help is very much appriciated!

Kevin
 
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alexoiu
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"If you want to run a pair of M.2 PCIe SSDs in RAID you’ll either need to have a board that has enough slots for a couple drives or you can use half-height, half-length (HHHL) adapters to get the job done. 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. Starting with Microsoft 2000 there is built-in functionality to set up a software RAID without any additional tools, but the dynamic volume will not be bootable. If you wanted a bootable RAID setup you’d have to invest in a hardware RAID card and we don’t know of one yet that will work for M.2 SSDs. Setting up a dynamic RAID array in Windows 8.1 is painless, so we’ll walk you though the process...
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Hi,
"If you want to run a pair of M.2 PCIe SSDs in RAID you’ll either need to have a board that has enough slots for a couple drives or you can use half-height, half-length (HHHL) adapters to get the job done. 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. Starting with Microsoft 2000 there is built-in functionality to set up a software RAID without any additional tools, but the dynamic volume will not be bootable. If you wanted a bootable RAID setup you’d have to invest in a hardware RAID card and we don’t know of one yet that will work for M.2 SSDs. Setting up a dynamic RAID array in Windows 8.1 is painless, so we’ll walk you though the process.
Read more at http://www.legitreviews.com/samsung-sm951-m2-pcie-ssds-raid0-performance_161753#c2dHGPXW3kcY4ThD.99"
 
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Thanks for your reply.
i have tried to follow his guide but some of the things he does isn't an option on the rampage v extrem.
for example i cant setup Raid 0 for pcie by using the ez tuning wizard.

I also couldn't do it manually because some of the options he is changing in his bios are not ingtegrated in to
my bios (which does have the latest version)

But appriciate the help.

 
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Wow, that i didnt think of this myself -_-
i will definitely try this (tomorrow) i will have to install windows on 1 of my evo's first so i can format
my current boot drive to form 1 raid 0 drive in windows.

I will let you know if this works.
Thanks!

 
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So i did what you linked.

And the results are insane.
The only unfortunate part is that i cannot install my windows on the samsung 950 drives.
look at these results:

http://imgur.com/uHOEaBC

pretty sexy :p

But there is no way for me to install windows on these drives in raid 0?
 
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getting them to work in Raid 0 is no problem
i might put them in raid 0 as well and use that as windows drive and use
the 950's for all my other stuff.

p.s
do you know if i would lose data from my samsung 950 pro's
if i would re install windws again but this time on both my 850's?
since i have some large game files on the 950s atm.
 
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Yeah to be safe i removed the raid 0 (samsung 950 pro's) and stored some stuff on there
before i did my reinstall. currently running my 850's in raid 0 and the 950's as well.

I use my 850's for windows and basic stuff i barely use and all my games and
video editting stuff on my 950's.
 
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