Raid 0 problem with Samsung Magician

[toron]

I have Asus P8z68-V mainboard and have 2*500GB Harddisk and 1*Samsung 840 Evo SSD.
I made Raid 0 with HDD and installed OS to SSD. SSD isn't in raid array.
But when i open Samsung Magician, program shows 2x Samsung Evo and give an error
"Magician cannot communicate with the below Samsung SSD". Actually there is no error and only see 1 ssd at first but after installing "intel rapid storage technology", it gives an error and i can't reach some options like "firmware update".

Is there a problem in Magician or am i doing something wrong?

 

[ronintexas]

The software/hardware RAID solutions in most desktop computer can create issues like this....even in the IT environment they cause problems. I suggest removing the RAID of the two hard drives, and if you absolutely have to have a single volume, Windows 8.1 has "Storage Spaces" that is an operating system level storage management similar to RAID that won't cause this problem with your SSD drive.

 

[toron]

The software/hardware RAID solutions in most desktop computer can create issues like this....even in the IT environment they cause problems. I suggest removing the RAID of the two hard drives, and if you absolutely have to have a single volume, Windows 8.1 has "Storage Spaces" that is an operating system level storage management similar to RAID that won't cause this problem with your SSD drive.

I'm not using Windows 8, now using Windows 7 64 Bit. As you said, i don't want to see many drives in my computer so "storage spaces" is good idea in windows 8. But i think i can do it in Windows 7 via Disk management. With making them dynamic disc. But i prefer Raid 0 because of performance.

BTW i turned AHCI mod in Bios and formatted again but performance test is pretty worse than Raid 0

Note : I don't do any optimization in both of that

 

[ronintexas]

RAID works well on production servers where DISK I/O is a premium (think 1,000+ users on a database) - the controllers that run the arrays can run $10,000+ (I remember purchasing one in 2007 for $29,000). These arrays are built with 10+ drives, and they are SAS drives that cost quite a bit more than the typical drive you buy at the local computer store.

Yes, you will get better performance - but in a two drive RAID 0 - you have twice the chance of losing both drives (if either drive dies - both are useless).

I work with RAID on most of my servers - and are very familiar with the technology - and of the 5 computers and 1 server I have at home - NONE of them have RAID installed....I do not want to invest in the hardware to ensure proper operation....