Hi everyone!
I want to do a clean installation of Windows 10 Pro x64 on a newly assembled PC:
Motherboard: Gigabyte X570 AORUS Xtreme (UEFI v.F35, GPT);
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X;
OS (boot) drive: Samsung 970 Pro PCIe NVMe SSD (M2A socket);
Data drive-1: Samsung 980 Pro PCIe NVMe SSD (M2B socket).
Data drive-2: HDD Toshiba (SATA III).
The only connected (boot) drive is the Samsung 970 Pro PCIe NVMe SSD. I will connect Data drives 1 and 2 after the OS installation.
I have read that PCIe NVMe SSD has better performance in RAID mode in comparison with ACHI mode:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/7843/testing-sata-express-with-asus/4
I want to enable RAID mode for PCIe NVMe SSD in UEFI (to take advantage of the caching in RAID protocol), but I cannot set RAID to Array (because I have only one physical OS (boot) drive).
My questions are:
I would greatly appreciate any help.
I want to do a clean installation of Windows 10 Pro x64 on a newly assembled PC:
Motherboard: Gigabyte X570 AORUS Xtreme (UEFI v.F35, GPT);
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X;
OS (boot) drive: Samsung 970 Pro PCIe NVMe SSD (M2A socket);
Data drive-1: Samsung 980 Pro PCIe NVMe SSD (M2B socket).
Data drive-2: HDD Toshiba (SATA III).
The only connected (boot) drive is the Samsung 970 Pro PCIe NVMe SSD. I will connect Data drives 1 and 2 after the OS installation.
I have read that PCIe NVMe SSD has better performance in RAID mode in comparison with ACHI mode:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/7843/testing-sata-express-with-asus/4
I want to enable RAID mode for PCIe NVMe SSD in UEFI (to take advantage of the caching in RAID protocol), but I cannot set RAID to Array (because I have only one physical OS (boot) drive).
My questions are:
- Can I successfully install Windows 10 on a single NVMe SSD with enabled RAID mode and without setting RAID to Array?
- Should I and can I install the AMD RAID Driver (SATA, NVMe RAID) if I enabled RAID, but did not set RAID to Array?
I would greatly appreciate any help.
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