Cannot create stripe volume

[Nicklas]

So I have a 840 EVO and 850 PRO SSD discs I want to make good use of after I got myself a M.2 disc.

I got windows installed and got into disc management in Windows, and wanted to create a stripe disc.

So I picked the two discs (one has recovery partition and the EFI partition, dont know why)

I choose the MB I wanted the parition to be in, the smallest disc

850: 237,94GB
840: 232,89GB

So, I just typed the minimal amount of the two, and yet it could not create the stripe, "not enough space"

How do I make it stripe!?

 

[USAFRet]

Stripe? As in a RAID 0?

Don't do that with those 2 drives.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-raid-benchmark,3485.html

 

[Nicklas]

Stripe? As in a RAID 0?

Don't do that with those 2 drives.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-raid-benchmark,3485.html

I guess I should create a spanned volume then?

I dont want two seperate discs thats what I am looking for really, but "stripe" I have read its simply faster, but maybe not

 

[USAFRet]

Additionally, "one has recovery partition and the EFI partition, dont know why"

Presumably you had these drives connected while you installed the OS on the m.2 drive?

Please show us a screencap of your Disk Management window.
Messing with the partitions on those SSD's may lead you into a non-bootable state.

 

[Nicklas]

Additionally, "one has recovery partition and the EFI partition, dont know why"

Presumably you had these drives connected while you installed the OS on the m.2 drive?

Please show us a screencap of your Disk Management window.
Messing with the partitions on those SSD's may lead you into a non-bootable state.

Damnit...

http://imgur.com/a/ii4TZ

Why does the window setup act so stupid, when I select a drive I want THAT drive...

How do I fix this??

Format the M.2, then how do I delete the EFI in the other disc? I have already tried it but it wont allow me in Windows setup

 

[USAFRet]

Additionally, "one has recovery partition and the EFI partition, dont know why"

Presumably you had these drives connected while you installed the OS on the m.2 drive?

Please show us a screencap of your Disk Management window.
Messing with the partitions on those SSD's may lead you into a non-bootable state.

Damnit...

http://imgur.com/a/ii4TZ

Why does the window setup act so stupid, when I select a drive I want THAT drive...

How do I fix this??

Format the M.2, then how do I delete the EFI in the other disc? I have already tried it but it wont allow me in Windows setup

As suspected.
If you were to remove or wipe that Disk 0, no boot for you.

To remove all that from Disk 0, see this:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/4f1b84ac-b193-40e3-943a-f45d52e23685/cant-delete-extra-healthy-recovery-partitions-and-healthy-efi-system-partition?forum=w8itproinstall

 

[USAFRet]

So....disconnect ALL drives except the m.2
Do a full wipe and reinstall, on the m.2.
After, then reconnect the 2 SSDs'. Wipe that current Disk 0 with the above link.

 

[Nicklas]

Yay!

It worked, now it looks like it should.

Now, either I do a stripe disk or a spanned?

I take it as striped does not give better performance but a huge risk when something goes wrong?

 

[USAFRet]

Yay!

It worked, now it looks like it should.

Now, either I do a stripe disk or a spanned?

I take it as striped does not give better performance but a huge risk when something goes wrong?

Striped is a huge risk for no gain.
Spanned? Depends on what context and how you are doing this.

My question is...why not have them as just individual drives?

 

[Nicklas]

Yay!

It worked, now it looks like it should.

Now, either I do a stripe disk or a spanned?

I take it as striped does not give better performance but a huge risk when something goes wrong?

Striped is a huge risk for no gain.
Spanned? Depends on what context and how you are doing this.

My question is...why not have them as just individual drives?

May sound retarded but I want as few "visible" drives as possible

Like when installing games, when my M.2 is full I dont want to Think "hmm which one now"

Its a...syndrome I have I guess

Because spanned basically means that Windows reads it as one disk, when its two, right?

 

[USAFRet]

You would have to choose anyway.
It doesn't automagically go to the next drive if the C drive (m.2) is full.

You'll already have 'more than 1'.
The C (m.2), and whatever you do with the 840/850.

So then you'd just have C, D, E.

In the Steam client, you can designate one of those other drives as the default install location. I believe the Origin client does this as well.

Steam:

In the steam client:
Steam
Settings
Downloads
Steam Library Folders
Add library folder

And 'spanned' depends on exactly how you do this.
The easiest way is through Windows Storage Spaces. Is that what you were looking at?