[SOLVED] My Dream setup is rubbish.

[MK2019]

Invested first in the Highpoint SSD7120 4XU.2 Raid card, along with 4 U.2 Intel 900P 280Gb.
Nice and fast raid card, which now lies in my drawer...

Reason you ask?
I started dreaming again about fast Raid boot which I could not get from SSD7120.
So I was happy when Highpoint finally released the SSD7102.
Today after almost a year with Highpine troubleshooting, I actually give up.
The Fu-£$€787 SSD7102 will boot of one of the drives, but setup raid is a no go with no boot. With the SSD7120 card the Raid Manager worked just fine in Windows 10 1809, but after clean install the SSD7102 windows raid manager will not live anymore. HPTSVR SERVICE CANNOT FIND CARD.

Just sharing my frustration with you , and also the lot of people who is/where in this HighPine hell.

Regard's from Norway,
Jarle Strand

 

[RnTk.]

HPTSVR SERVICE CANNOT FIND CARD. HighPine hell. Regard's from Norway, Jarle Strand [/QUOTE]
There is an American New Yorker on YouTube who guffaws and kicks the cat around when it comes to learning academic knowledge about peripheral limitations of device interconnection and PC accessories, specifically he’s expressed extreme contempt of the one about “how many USB devices can be daisy chained to one port”, but in one aspect he’s dead right.
These informational tidbits seem inappropriate or wholly moot until they’ve been put into practice. and the casual computer servicer will sooner or later encounter one or more of these specifications and either recognize it exists, or will say it’s stupid and ‘decide’ to move laterally; or at the same time, feel forced to surrender.
On that note, with having been provided only the information of a single component of your system, it is improbable that anyone else will knowingly duplicate your conditions and experience the exact same hell that you have been through... and though there’s a chance I could be wrong- I won’t know.
P.S. that yank’s name is Louis Rossman.
PPs, Why you’re not blaming the single drive seems to be part of your dream which is causing the hell you’re putting yourself through. More than the Highpoint/HighPine RAID cards, it has more contiguity throughout the problem than two cards and the non-continuum of software- Windows 10 is venerable but not immutable- it comes in several tiers and the one tier which you’re operating may not be a RAID capable one. Take a leap up to Pro or Enterprise or whatever Microsoft calls the up-sell in Norway, if it’s even available there! Or maybe it’s a problem with the Integrated Drive Electronics- or motherboard firmware limitations.
One thing that is NOT going to help is another call to “HighPine”.

 

[MK2019]

You are absolutly right RnTk.
My frustation took the brain out of my box, and talked shit about 1 product.
My setup of the complete PC with the Highpoint SSD7102
Asus X99 Deluxe II with latest bios and drivers.
Highpoint SSD7102 in PCI-E Slot 1 (16x)
Gigabyte Aorus RTX 2080 Ti Xtreme WaterForce in PCI-E Slot 3 (16x)
Corsair Dominator Platinum CMD16GX4M2B3200C16 in slot A1+B1+C1+D1
Watercooling the chipset+cpu+grapich card and memory.
Power comes from a Corsair AX1200i
The 4x U.2 Intel 900P 280Gb. is using intel's own cables to convert from U2 to NVME 2280 on the SSD7102.
Logitech MX Master mouse in first usb 2.0 port backside.
Razer DeathStalker keyboard in second usb 2.0 port backside.
Windows Pro, versions tried. 1703 + 1809 + 1903 and now 1909 with latest updates.

With this setup, the install on a single U.2 drive with no raid, goes like a charm.
At the time I wrote the first message in July, I could not afford to invest in 2x Samsung 970 Pro NVME SSD.
I really wish I had not been sweettalked by tech support at Highpoint.
The reason I invested in the first SSD7120 was because I wanted a blasting fast RAID setup with boot.
After a lenghty talk with Highpoint, they came up with a soulution to upgrade my SSD7120 and if i wanted that then i also had to buy a second card to make it work. The total amount would be around $1.000,00.

Since that was a no go, they mentioned the soon to be annonunced SSD7102 card who would guaranteed solve my Boot RAID problem, the Support tech at Highpoint said.

Then the SSD7102 card was released. Im not any wiser, so I ordered the damn thing.
Several months later I can to much about routing of lanes and pci-e hardware.
The problem with the U.2 RAID setup for boot on the SSD7102 is a glitch from Intels hardware for U.2 drives.
Highpoint did not know about this, and did not care either.

Now I have 4x Samsung 970 Pro 1TB NVME SSD.
They all are in Raid 0 and the speed is around 12000GB read and 11000GB write.
AND IT IS BOOTING so fast.
The only hardware changed in any way was from Intels U.2 Drives to Samsungs NVME SSD's

Latest from Highpoint is that they soon will release a new U.2 Raid card with boot. SSD7130.

Thanks for reading and hope this is a reliable source for you to understand that not every suppliers tech is born a customer resource person.

JS