Trouble with RAID0 and Blu-ray drive

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Hi,

Here is my configuration:

- Motherboard MSI Z170A Gaming M7
- RAM : Ripjaws F4-3200C14D-32GVK
- SSDs : 4 x Samsung 850EVO 1TB (2.5")
- SSDs : 1 x Samsung 960EVO M.2 500 GB
- GPU : 1080 Ti
- Bluray Drive : 1 x LG BH16NS40 (SATA) (internal)

I made a fresh installation of Windows 10 Pro 64 from M.2 without connecting the 4 SSDs.
Everything OK.
As soon as I declare 3 SSDs in RAID0 and the 4th one apart, I lose the Blu-ray drive in the File Manager. It's present in Device Manager !
I tried many things about registry without any success.
Do you have an idea ?

Thank you so much !








 
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Take a look at the chart on page 35 of your motherboard manual -- with a PCIe M.2 drive you must place it in the M2_2 slot to still use all the SATA ports (so if it is a SATA 960EVO M.2 you can only use four of the SATA 1-6 slots). However, I think that you can use one of the SATAe ports for one of the SATA SSDs as those ports should be backward compatible to SATA.

Here is the maximum support: 1x M.2_PCIe + 6x SATAs ***or*** 1x M.2_SATA + 1x M.2_PCIe + 4x SATA.

Bottom line, look at that chart and insure that you attach your drives in a supported configuration.
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I assume that you are using motherboard based RAID to create the RAID 0 array?

While not recommended, if you feel that you must pool the drives I would suggest that you use Windows 10 Storage spaces instead of the bios based solution as being *slightly* more resilient and won't fail due to the odd bios issue or update. While not quite as fast, nothing that you would notice since the drives are for storage. And this sort of discussion always requires the warning to have sufficient backup in case of failure.

Take a look at THIS instruction information on creating a simple pool.

With this approach it should also fix your optical drive issue.
 
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I deleted the RAID0 group and cleaned all the 5 SSDs with DISKPART.
I unplugged the 4 SSDs.
I made a new fresh Windows installation on M.2.
Everything OK.
Then I plugged the 4 SSDs and lost again the Blu-ray drive.
Seems a little bit tricky ..
 
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Take a look at the chart on page 35 of your motherboard manual -- with a PCIe M.2 drive you must place it in the M2_2 slot to still use all the SATA ports (so if it is a SATA 960EVO M.2 you can only use four of the SATA 1-6 slots). However, I think that you can use one of the SATAe ports for one of the SATA SSDs as those ports should be backward compatible to SATA.

Here is the maximum support: 1x M.2_PCIe + 6x SATAs ***or*** 1x M.2_SATA + 1x M.2_PCIe + 4x SATA.

Bottom line, look at that chart and insure that you attach your drives in a supported configuration.
 
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Thanks !
I read the user manual and there is no misunderstanding. M_2 is in second slot.
I followed this link:

http://www.askvg.com/optical-drives-are-not-showing-in-my-computer/

and I succeeded ! (I used up to Method 4 including the script).

 
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I have a question about Storage Spaces. What happens if I take the 3 SSDs that make the pool and put them onto another computer ? Am I going to be able to use the Storage Space without any problem ?
 
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