2 Samsung 850 Pro SSD's not showing up in RAID

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luzhun

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Hello. I am putting together this new custom built desktop and am using an Asus Sabertooth Z97 Mark1/USB3.1 motherboard. Everything is showing up fine as it should, RAM amount and timings, etc.. and it even shows the 2 Samsung 850pro SSD's under Boot Priority, but for some reason, when I enable RAID and go to the next screen, it says that there are no drives available to select for the RAID. I may try updating the BIOS to see if this helps, but does this sound like a common issue? I tried contacting Asus support, but just kept getting rerouted. Sigh.

I will include screenshots of the BIOS so that you can see. Thank you for what I can try to do next.

Here is my motherboard link: http://

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Hi all. Thank you for the help again. It ended up being that I had the drives plugged into the two ASMedia SATA ports instead of to the Intel ones. Once I plugged them into the Intel Sata ports, they showed up under Sata Information in the BIOS from my first screenshot and I was able to create a RAID from that point on. I did not know the 2 beige colored ports were different from the rest.

2 Samsung 850 PRO (256GB) - Raid 0

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djreedj

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Boot up to your desktop, go to Disc Management, find your two SSD's, right click on them, click New Volume and follow instructions. Once you do that to both they should show up. Assuming you have them plugged into the right Sata headers.
 
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luzhun

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Oh really? Thank you for the fast response. I have not updated the BIOS yet. I also have a 2TB drive that I am planning on using as a slave drive for extra storage, so I do not have any OS installed yet. I am not sure if I should go ahead and install Windows and then try to make the RAID work? Hmm..
 
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I think this is really bad advice, unless you are certain that a software RAID is what you actually want.. You can create your RAID via hardware, through the BIOS, or via software, through Windows. A hardware raid array will be seen by Windows as one disk, a software raid array will still be seen by the BIOS as several disks.

 
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luzhun

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Hi all. Thank you for the help again. It ended up being that I had the drives plugged into the two ASMedia SATA ports instead of to the Intel ones. Once I plugged them into the Intel Sata ports, they showed up under Sata Information in the BIOS from my first screenshot and I was able to create a RAID from that point on. I did not know the 2 beige colored ports were different from the rest.

2 Samsung 850 PRO (256GB) - Raid 0

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2TB Drive:

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