Samsung Magican flipping out on RAID 0 and Intel Rapid Storage SSD Cache. Any alternatives?

[Hooch180]

Hello.
This is my drive setup.

2 x 1TB HDDs in RAID 0 - Called DATA drive
1 x 500GB SSD - Called SYSTEM
1 x 120GB SSD - 64GB used as Intel Rapid Storage Cache for DATA (RAID 0 drives). 30GB used as partition for "stuff" I'm working on.

Additionally 1TB backup drive, but that does not matter here.

PROBLEM

In short:

In long:
One drive is displayed 3 times. 1HDD is listed (It is not SSD).
I can't update firmware or do any "optimization".

I read that it is because of me using RAID 0 drives.

I'm not really asking how to fix it, as I already read that there is no way and I don't think Samsung is even interested in looking into it.

My question:
Is there any alternative for Samsung Magician? I would like to see disk health, total transfer and it would be nice to be able to "optimize" drive.

Than you in advance for your help.

 

[Palorim12]

Is your BIOS set to ACHI mode? Are you using the latest BIOS for your MB?

He's using RAID, its obviously not in AHCI mode.

You can try CrystalDiskInfo for drive health.

 

[popatim]

Some motherbds allow you to exclude a few ports from the raid and leave them in ahci mode (usually ports 4 & 5)
Please check your motherbds documentation and if its possible, move the SSD to one of those ports.

 

[mjmcmahon]

Hooch -

I don't have a solution, but am equally interested in one as I'm set up very similarly.

 

[Hooch180]

Is your BIOS set to ACHI mode? Are you using the latest BIOS for your MB?

He's using RAID, its obviously not in AHCI mode.

You can try CrystalDiskInfo for drive health.

Some motherbds allow you to exclude a few ports from the raid and leave them in ahci mode (usually ports 4 & 5)
Please check your motherbds documentation and if its possible, move the SSD to one of those ports.

It is Asus z97-ar

 

[popatim]

http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/LGA1150/Z97-AR/e9472_z97-ar_ug_v2_for_web_only.pdf