Like me you’re probably wondering how the heck you enable RAID for your shiny new NVMe drives. Turns out, in a stroke of genius and true adhesion to the old ways, the NVMe RAID option is in fact, non-existent.
To enable RAID for your NVMe drives, you need to turn SATA RAID… That’s right… SATA…. The thing your new drives have NOTHING TO DO WITH….
Once SATA mode is set to RAID, save changes, reboot, and go back into the BIOS. From there, you’ll finally be able to find the RAID management screen under ‘Advanced’.
Nowhere in the manual does it say to do this for NVME… Cheers
Question – does this enable RAID 0 for the OS to be booted to?
Yes it does! When you install an OS, you need to ensure you add the RAID drivers off a USB, otherwise the RAID will not appear.
I’m having issues getting windows installed after setting up raid0 on 2 nvme.
I’ve enabled SATA raid, rebooted bios, deleted arrays, initialized the m.2’s. Created a new raid 0 array. It shows the array and says online.
I boot windows install media on USB stick in UEFI.
However it’s showing both drives as disk 0 and disk 1 off the get go as unallocated space. Both drives have a message saying cannot install windows to MBR, windows needs GPT partition. Also says it needs to be in NTFS format.
So I open diskpart and convert the drives to gpt, and partition space, and convert to to NTFS. Now it lets me install windows.
But why is it showing the drives separately. Raid 0 can’t actually be functioning. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong but I’ve tried everything. Spent like 8 hours trying to get it to work.
If you have any ideas I’d love to hear them.
Mobo- MSI Meg x570 ace
Ryzen 3950x
3090 ftw
Gskill royal 3600 32gb
2 Samsung Evo plus nvme
Thanks for this, I couldn’t find this option anywhere.
My goal is to leave my OS nvme alone, and install 2 additional nvme drives that are going to run raid0. Is it possible to install the raid drivers into an already running windows?
This way I won’t have to reinstall windows, and hopefully it will leave my current OS m.2 alone?