[SOLVED] Samsung x2 970 Evo Plus M.2 NVMe RAID0

[gstvlmachado]

Sup guys!

I’m planning to do an upgrade on my setup, and it’s the storage.

Changing from:
1 SanDisk Ultra II 960GB
1 Kingston V300 120GB
1 HDD 1TB

To:
2x Samsung 970 Evo Plus 500GB in RAID0

My MOBO is a GIGABYTE AROUS GAMING 7 Z370. I saw on their website the guide how to configure the raid and I think I understood everything.

The only thing I didn’t get is how to make it bootable to install Windows on them. I saw some videos on YouTube and they install a driver on Windows installation and boom the raid becomes available.

Where I find this driver?

*I know I’m not gaining any visible performance increase from this

 

[Newtonius]

Sup guys!

I’m planning to do an upgrade on my setup, and it’s the storage.

Changing from:
1 SanDisk Ultra II 960GB
1 Kingston V300 120GB
1 HDD 1TB

To:
2x Samsung 970 Evo Plus 500GB in RAID0

My MOBO is a GIGABYTE AROUS GAMING 7 Z370. I saw on their website the guide how to configure the raid and I think I understood everything.

The only thing I didn’t get is how to make it bootable to install Windows on them. I saw some videos on YouTube and they install a driver on Windows installation and boom the raid becomes available.

Where I find this driver?

*I know I’m not gaining any visible performance increase from this

For windows installation on a raid 0 NVMe, you should first configure the raid on your bios. Some Bios have that feature by changing the SATA controller option from AHCI to RAID, rebooting, and then using the Raid2Xpert (or whatever raid utility is on the board) to create a raid with the NVMe.

Once your bios has been configured to recognize the nvme's as a single drive, you can begin the windows install process and while you're deciding which disk to install windows on, there is an options to install any required drivers if your NVMe bios configured raid is still not usable.

Please look for tutorials for that specific board as not all NVMe raids work nicely.