raid0 array issues C: not detecting full array

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i recently went through a lot of trouble to get my os on my stationary in on a 6 ssd raid0, but since windows wouldnt install on my bios raid(i would get till the part of the first shutdown and then i would stop and i would have some jumbled files on my array) so i went for installing it on one, making an image backup setting up the raid and then restoring from image backup(from my external hdd) but now my c: drive is only at 1/6th of the capacity even though the raid has plenty of space. i have also checked the speeds and the raid is in full effect on the small part.

any ideas on how i could get my pc to understand that it actually has terabytes of storage instead of gigabytes?

its an x99 Micro from EVGA if that helps and the discs are hyper X savages
 
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Drive size or whatever...I'd be interested in some actual documented load time differences between an HDD, an SSD, and SSD's in RAID 0.
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Right. The Disk 0 array is ~1.4TB. The C volume is ~228GB.
This was a result of the imaging. The original image was 228GB, so that's what this resurrected image volume is.

Can you show a screencap of the Disk Management window?

Or...start over. Don't use an 'image' of the original install.
Have the 6 drives in the array....clean install using the whole thing.


But...I gotta ask, just for my own knowledge.
6 SSD's in a RAID 0? Why?
 
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if i try to install while they are in raid the install messes up every time it needs to restart, and the management is in the onboard raid system so it only shows at bootup(AFAIK) when you press (CTRL+I).

As to why, its because i can and i don't have any m.2/nvme slots. to manage load times in games like Xcom 2(they take forever).
 
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6 drives in RAID 0 = 6 times greater chance of system failure.

And not that much change in speed really. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-raid-benchmark,3485-8.html
 
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Actually, that would be 7 times the chance of fail.
6 drives + the RAID controller.
 
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6 drives in RAID 0 = 6 times greater chance of system failure.
And not that much change in speed really. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-raid-benchmark,...
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sure it does worse in mixed aplications, but with things like straight reads and writes (installs, loading saves, saving games, loading levels.) the raid0 is easily worth it for me.
all you need is a cheap external hdd that you backup to once a week or so in the background

Wouldn't disk management and expand the c: partition into the unallocated space resolve this?
But I agree with usafret, why? The risks must outweigh the benefits. Make sure you have a backup.
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ofcourse i have one, and all my sensitive stuff is on a different drive, this is just all the games and such that i can just reinstall from steam.
 
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Recipe for disaster, motherboard raid controllers often blow up from a variety of things that would not affect a real controller, like say an Adaptec 8805 or LSI equivalent. :pfff:

edit: and I would not advocate any kind of RAID for SSDs in this scenario.

 
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