[SOLVED] New to Raid 0 - Not any faster?

[brkorth99]

Hello! I just recently bought two Samsung 970 EVO plus 500GB M.2 NVME drives and installed them on my MSI ZS170a M5 Gaming Motherboard. I have the lastes BIOS and Intel Rapid Storage drivers, I setup my Raid 0 with the Magice Genie that MSI provides. Everything is recognized and everything says that it is running in Raid 0, however CrystaDiskMark doesn't show even a slight increase in speed. What can I do to fix this?

 

[USAFRet]

Give us a screencap of what you see in CDM.

But even when/if you do see a big benchmark number, the user facing performance will not be a whole lot different than individual drives.
RAID 0 with SSD's does not stack performance like it mostly did with HDD's.

 

[brkorth99]

Give us a screencap of what you see in CDM.

But even when/if you do see a big benchmark number, the user facing performance will not be a whole lot different than individual drives.
RAID 0 with SSD's does not stack performance like it mostly did with HDD's.

Thank you for helping! Here is the CDM result along with Intel Rapid Storage info. I feel like I did something wrong because the read speed is a little slower then before I put the two in RAID.

https://imgur.com/a/tj2PLID

View: https://imgur.com/a/tj2PLID

 

[USAFRet]

And using 2x 970EVO in RAID 0 for the OS drive is completely useless.
You'll see zero difference over individual drives.

Not sure what you did or didn't do to get to this result, but I would absolutely rethink this whole RAID 0 thing.

 

[brkorth99]

And using 2x 970EVO in RAID 0 for the OS drive is completely useless.
You'll see zero difference over individual drives.

Not sure what you did or didn't do to get to this result, but I would absolutely rethink this whole RAID 0 thing.

I can still return the drives and might do so. Is it better to keep my OS on a separate drive and just put my games on my RAID 0 setup? I don't mind going back to 1 drive, I am really curious as to why my speeds are so slow though. I

 

[USAFRet]

I would keep both drives.
1 for the OS and applications, the other for games.

No RAID 0 at all.

 

[brkorth99]

I would keep both drives.
1 for the OS and applications, the other for games.

No RAID 0 at all.

I will do that. I know it will be a lot more stable. However I am still curious as to why my drives are so slow in RAID 0. Oh well.