GIGABYTE GA-B85M-DS3H-A | Need help getting RAID 0 Setup

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2- Kingston v300 series SSD 120GB

In my UEFI Bios I'm not even given the option to choose the RAID configuration, only IDE and AHCI. I also have the integrated sata controller enabled.

 
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Looking through everything, I don't see that the motherboard supports RAID. Since it doesn't appear that it supports RAID, you'll either have to pass on having it, or buy a RAID controller. All things being equal though, testing shows that for most normal user loads, having your SSDs in RAID don't really give that much of a benefit.
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Looking through everything, I don't see that the motherboard supports RAID. Since it doesn't appear that it supports RAID, you'll either have to pass on having it, or buy a RAID controller. All things being equal though, testing shows that for most normal user loads, having your SSDs in RAID don't really give that much of a benefit.
 
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I'm actually surprised it doesn't support it. If you wanted to use the drive as transparent storage, you can actually mount the drive "under" another directory in the C drive to have 250ish GB:

1) Create the directory you want to mount it under on the C drive (ie: C:\more-storage)
2) open control panel -> administrative tools -> computer management -> disk management
3) right click on the secondary drive -> assign drive letters and paths.
4) you'll mount the drive to the empty NTFS path - then select the directory you created (ie: c:\more-storage) and anything then saved there will be on the secondary drive.

The only downside to this is that the free space is limited to the size of the individual drive. For example in your case, if you tried to save a 150GB file to that secondary storage (lets assume 100GB free on the C drive and 120GB free on the second drive...) even though you have 220GB 'free' the save will fail as there's not enough space on the second drive. (if you had a RAID0 this would not be a problem...) so it's a difference to be aware of.
 
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