Creating a Raid 0 on 850 evo and 840 evo 250 gb SSD's

[oilboyhere]

Hello all,

I have spent many hours trying to figure out why my windows installation media wont see my Raid 0 setup. I have configured the sata to run in raid mode and gone into the motherboard settings and created the raid. When I reboot it says that drive 1 raid 0 is active and configured properly.

That being said whenever I load my windows media (I have tried both 7 and 8 pro) it doesn't see the drive. I have loaded every driver I can imagine. I have gone here http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/chipset?os=Windows+8.1+-+64 and to the gigabyte website.

At first I thought it was just a faulty board, the original one I had was a Asus 990fx R 2.0, so I went out and bought a Gigabyte board 970A-UD3P and tried it on there I ran into the same issue. The drivers on the gigabyte website, the drivers on the motherboard disk, and the AMD drivers from the website do not work. I have tried all versions old and new. As well as flashing the bios to their current versions.

Could it possibly be something with the ssd's even though the motherboard detects them and successfully creates the raid?

I'm at a loss so any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[JackNaylorPE]

I installed twin 840 pros when I did my build and saw squat benefit from the RAID 0. The Samsung software is not supported and when i called Samsung Tech Support was told that Samsung does not recommend RAID on their SSDs. After trying for three months to see some benefit from RAID 0, i broke the array and used one for OS and apps and the second for a backup OS install and games. Much happier.

 

[oilboyhere]

Its now personal because I have spent at least six hours trying to get this thing set up. I understand the risks and lack of benefits but I would really like to figure this out. Some people have been suggesting pulling out the flashdrive after I load the drivers but that hasn't seemed to work.

 

[JackNaylorPE]

I spent 3 months .... the 3rd call to Samsung I got a tech who did it on his rig and he broke the array after a while also.

 

[Troy1963]

Has anyone figured this out? - my son and I have tried for days to get the two Samsung SSD's to be recognized during the Windows 10 install to no avail. As Oilyboy said (paraphrased) - the array is confirmed but not seen as a place to install Windows grrrrrrrrrrrr Gigabyte MB with AMD processor

 

[JackNaylorPE]

Figured what out.... Samsung does not recommend or support RAID on their SSDs. Unless you are into benchmarks, there is nothing to be gained by doing so and you double the risk of data loss as if one fails, it's all gone.