[SOLVED] Removing Drives in RAID 0

[cinomadic]

Hello,
I bought my computer as a custom workstation from an online store many years ago. I've gotten a new computer and I wish to sell some of the disk drives from the old computer.

The 4 Intel DC S3500 Series 800GB SATA III SSD are in RAID0 with a MARVELL controller. They are not the OS drive.

I have a couple questions:

1. How can I remove the RAID 0 so that they return to individual drives ?
2. How can I remove the drives safely from my computer?

Thank you!

 

[Ralston18]

FYI - from this Forum:

https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/how-to-delete-raid-0-with-2-ssd-drives.3639131/

Read the link and then look to see "how" the drives appear.

However, do hold off a bit: there may be other, additional suggestions.

 

[cinomadic]

Thank you for the reply, @Ralston18.

I don't know how the RAID was setup: Windows or BIOS. I think it was BIOS because I don't see separate entities in the Disk Management dialog.

 

[Ralston18]

So no need to save or recover data from RAID E: - correct?

Are you able to open the host computer's case and physically remove Disk 0 (RAID E: ?

In BIOS can you see where to turn off RAID 0? Post that image as well.

The next step would be to turn BIOS RAID off and look for two entities/partitions if I am following correctly.

 

[cinomadic]

So no need to save or recover data from RAID E: - correct?

Are you able to open the host computer's case and physically remove Disk 0 (RAID E: ?

In BIOS can you see where to turn off RAID 0? Post that image as well.

The next step would be to turn BIOS RAID off and look for two entities/partitions if I am following correctly.

Thank you for the reply @Ralston18 !

I am able to open the case and physically remove Disk 0, RAID E:.

I'm currently backing up the drive (the data can be deleted afterwards), so I will post a photo of my BIOS when I'm able to restart my machine. Hopefully I'll be able to identify where I can turn off RAID.

 

[Ralston18]

Very good - take your time.

Just to go on the record here all that should be needed (once RAID is OFF) is to physically format Disk 0

If you plan to sell the drive you may wish to wipe the drive as well.

 

[cinomadic]

Hello,
These are my BIOS.

The first is my American Megatrends. I didn't see anything explicit about enabling/disabling RAID, but just the Marvell SATA Configuration.

Here is my Marvell BIOS

If I press ENTER on the HBA 0: Marvell 0 option, it shows "[Configuration Wizard]" but it is greyed out.

If I press ENTER on the RAID option, I get the option to "Delete" (the Selected Virtual Disk).

If I press ENTER on the individual SSDs, I get the Option to "Erase RAID Config Data".

Can anyone please advise on how to disable the RAID0 on these drives so I can safely format & remove them individually?

Thank you!

 

[SkyNetRising]

Read the manual:

https://www.manualslib.com/manual/475941/Asus-Pike-9230.html?page=30#manual

 

[cinomadic]

@SkyNetRising , thank you for the reply. I think I found this at the same time. I deleted the Virtual Disk per the manual's instructions, but now I do not see any of my SSDs.

 

[cinomadic]

If I go to Disk Management, I see this...

I continued with MBR.

I now see 4 disks that are "Unallocated." I have chosen to create a New Simple Volume and proceeded with NTFS. Seems to be working now.