SATA and RAID settings not found in Asus B150 Pro gaming/Aura Motherboard BIOS

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Hello I really need help with this big problem I have.
Basically I got a brand new Asus B150 Pro Gaming/Aura Motherboard for a new build over the Black Friday sales, and I wanted to do a RAID 0 but I cannot find anything related to SATA settings anywhere in the bios, and I have search the manual several times and also searched online for this issue but I still can't find any reference to the setting...

Thanks in advance for any help :)
 
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If you look at the storage specs on their site and even on the box it makes no mention of having RAID. Its not exactly a feature that a budget gamer goes looking for when buying an LED gaming motherboard. I'm assuming you expect a big sticker on the box that says NO RAID? That doesn't make sense at all.

RAID 10 is excessive redundancy, to the point its a waste of money, on top of that if a file corrupts all you have is 2 striped copies of a corrupt file. The...
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That board does not support RAID, and in fact the B150 chipset itself does not support RAID on any board

https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/B150-PRO-GAMING-AURA/specifications/

http://www.techspot.com/article/1088-Intel-100-series-chipset-family-detailed/

If you really want to do striped data, in Windows 10 you can use Storage spaces to set up a striped volume between two drives.
 
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Thats a screen shot of the BIOS from a Maximus VIII Extreme motherboard which has the Z170 chipset.

B150 is a budget consumer chipset, not supporting raid makes sense, thats one of the reasons the board is under $100 vs being $150 or more.

Like I said Windows 10 has RAID 0 and RAID 1 support built in, just use storage spaces. Striped is RAID 0 and mirrored is RAID 1. What are you hoping to gain with RAID 0 anyway?
 
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Yeah that sounds like a good plan you need a Z170, H170, or Q170 board to support RAID.

What in the world do you plan on using RAID 10 for? That type of setup just does not make sense for what (with a board like you already have ) I would expect a gaming computer.
 
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Its not ASUS fault, ALL B150 motherboards do not have RAID its part of the chipset. All the major manufacturers make "Gaming" B150 motherboards. They are good for basic gaming systems. ASUS is generally the top quality manufacturer, and their BIOS, well the rest are quite similar.

You still haven't answered what in the world you need RAID 10 for?
 
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Maybe they should make it VERY clear that it does not have certain capability's instead of people finding out when they get the product.

To answer your question about the RAID 10, I plan on doing gaming and some Editing stuff and want redundancy in case something dies
 
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usually the said what it supported and not what are not supported, cause that would be a long, long long list. It would be like not support Intel cpu 80386, 80286, 80486, 80486DX, no support for floppy disk.
 
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If you look at the storage specs on their site and even on the box it makes no mention of having RAID. Its not exactly a feature that a budget gamer goes looking for when buying an LED gaming motherboard. I'm assuming you expect a big sticker on the box that says NO RAID? That doesn't make sense at all.

RAID 10 is excessive redundancy, to the point its a waste of money, on top of that if a file corrupts all you have is 2 striped copies of a corrupt file. The applications for RAID 10 is not what you are doing its for a heavily maintained server, with a proper cached raid controller. This is one of those just because you CAN doesn't mean you SHOULD type of things.

You are far better served using a proper backup drive and backing up your data to an external drive daily (or hourly or whatever). If you are worried about drive failure in an immediate sense, using Storage spaces to Mirror your data drive makes sense, if you have a drive failure you can continue working and swap the drive out. You don't even need a new motherboard to do that, and Windows makes it very easy to recover from a failure.
 
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