SSD install in ahci or raid mode ?

[ninogui]

Hello

Regarding my st<ill to solve problem a few posts down below at
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/294035-14-maximus-formula-boot-raid

someone suggested that I probably should have installed the SSD in bios raid mode with all the otheres disconnected, and in the end connect the others

do you agree I should try this ?

thks in advance

 

[Emerald]

AHCI mode should work fine. RAID is only required if any of the drives are already configured to run in RAID mode.

 

[cgner]

RAID only matters if you tell several drives to work together. If you still run single disc, it automatically runs in AHCI mode.

 

[ninogui]

Update:

I sort it out. Thing here is first W7 has to be installed on the SSD with bios setting RAID. Also before setting disk parameters on the w/ setup I loaded the driver included on the Rapid Intel matrix storage drivers. In the end with installation stabilized connected the raid 0 tein hard disks, made sure the boot sequence is always SSD first and it worked !

In the end the ssd tweaker tool reports AHCI is not enabled but maybe it is not acknowledging the raid ssd status (not part of the matrix). I checked and trim is enabled and working

All I can say its an impressive update even when comparing to a hard disk raid 0, and I can only go up to sata2 performance.

This is the AS SSD bench

260 247
22,7 76
182,7 104,67
0,076 0,040
232 205
563

So I´d say not bad at all for a 6 year old motherboard running on sata2 right ?

Now I am not sure if I should update the chipset drivers. Latest asus maximus formula or rampage formula chipset drivers (my bios is rampage´s, meaning its compatible and allows fine tuning of the RAM channel sub commands) are from mid 2009. My W7 is latest sp1 updated.

What u think, should I ?

all is working great, not sure if I should mess with

 

[cgner]

No, dont upgrade.

 

[ninogui]

ok

thks that was pretty summed up lol