Do all BIOS' have a raid utility; or, because of the card being installed, does that make the raid utility show up in the BIOS?
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It usually comes up after the BIOS boots it flashes at the top of screen.-because of the card simply being installed. :)
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I returned my LSI card, because it wouldn't work on my Asus or Gigabyte motherboard. I have an Areca raid card now, but it works much better than the LSI. As for the specs, of the LSI here is the website. http://www.lsi.com/products/raid-controllers/pages/default.aspx
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As far as I can tell they should be the same. PCIe bus or RAID configuration are probably the bigger factors (same). There maybe some difference in individual drives but probably not. The difference in price with capacity pretty much made the choice.
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Hi,I've been searching for a while now, and am unfortunately still confused.Is this card 'by default' in IT (initiator-target / Straight Through) mode as Andy O. indicates recently?orMust the card be flashed to set it to IT Mode as indicated by John B., shortly after Andy's comment.I too want to use it for ZFS / Storage Spaces and would like disks presented without RAID or using multiple RAID 0 arrays.Thanks!Ed
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No. This card has no RAID functionality. You need to find a card that offers RAID 1, which is drive mirroring, to do what you're looking to do.
157803
Mine is in a headless server, Win 8.1 Pro. I can't get into the BIOS without hooking it up. If I knew what you were looking for I'd like to help.
663715
Use the Non-raid drivers. Don't bother using the PCI-e cards raid. It's complete garbage. If you're using Linux, use mdadm and LVM, if you're using windows use either the Dynamic Disks Strip or Storage Spaces. I leave the drives in Legacy mode using the mentioned driver, DrivePool to put them all together, and SnapRaid for backup. I gave up on any sort of raid a long time ago. There is NO way to get the data back should you loose a drive (raid 1 case.)
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Try going into your bios and switching the RAID mode for the drive/port from AHCI to IDE. That may allow you to boot so you can update the bios.
1318415
I have 2 of these in an Asus M5A99FX Pro motherboard, they work perfectly. This card does not need a driver, it is a standard SATA card(no raid). I'm running Windows Server 2012 on the machine. Hope this helps. BTW - I have 8 2tb disks connected.
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No, it uses a special kind of msata which has built in raid controller and also bios is locked to raid mode.
68040
To use Intel's SSD support you need to run in RAID and your MoBo must have the correct chipset. There is a cap to the size of the SSD you can use. If not using RAID, I would go the route of Sandisk again. If running RAID or installing building a new system I'd go the other route. Using their caching software (rather than Intel's, as I don't run in Raid and didn't want to reconfigure my system), it definitely sped up my system and drastically cut my boot time.
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Right now I have a mirrored array on this PCI RAID SATA card with two 2 TB SATA hard drives. I am booting my Windows 7 Pro machine on a separate SATA controller on my motherboard from an SSD drive.
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There is no RAID inside this adapter. Some system boards have 'fake' RAID, but you have to go waaay back to get IDE RAID, now it's mostly SATA. Unlikely but possible to still find a card that does IDE RAID, PROMISE made some. As far as I know, the 'drives' (microSDs) enumerate as 0 and 1, a and b etc. to systems. No striping or mirroring going on without outside help. The slow and wear-prone media of most microSD just doesn't make good RAID sense anyway.
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If you created the raid configuration using the BIOS/utility (pre-boot) of PCI-e card that comes with the unit, likely no. if operating system "software raid," yes, it should be readable, but will appear as a 'broken' raid drive but files should be readable. I formatted my drives outside the unit (if you do so, they show up as 'legacy' in the drive detection process prior to the OS boot), and it handles 3Tbyte drives without any problems. If you used the card to create the partition table and raid setup, outcome is unknown. I prefer software raid (it's just as fast) as any other modern/recent controller can read the drives and configuration. If you created the raid configuration using the BIOS/utility (pre-boot) of PCI-e card that comes with the unit, likely no. if operating system "software raid," yes, it should be readable, but will appear as a 'broken' raid drive but files should be readable. I formatted my drives outside the unit (if you do so, they show up as 'legacy' in the drive detection process prior to the OS boot), and it handles 3Tbyte drives without any problems. If you used the card to create the partition table and raid setup, outcome is unknown. I prefer software raid (it's just as fast) as any other... » Read More If you created the raid configuration using the BIOS/utility (pre-boot) of PCI-e card that comes with the unit, likely no. if operating system "software raid," yes, it should be readable, but will appear as a 'broken' raid drive but files should be readable. I formatted my drives outside the unit (if you do so, they show up as 'legacy' in the drive detection process prior to the OS boot), and it handles 3Tbyte drives without any problems. If you used the card to create the partition table and raid setup, outcome is unknown. I prefer software raid (it's just as fast) as any other modern/recent controller can read the drives and configuration. « Show Less
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I'm not sure know the answer (or fully understand what you're trying to accomplish) but I can't see why not. If the controller card is recognized in the BIOS, and the drives attached to the controller are recognized by the controller, then using the controller BIOS you can configure the drive array (RAID, JBOD, etc) and then set the boot order. Of course, using a controller card you will need to hit F6 to install the controller card drivers in order to load windows onto it.
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The card itself has no RAID capabilities; the HDDs are reported to BIOS and OS as independent drives. That means you can only create software RAID arrays, via the OS.
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In your BIOS (assuming you know what that is), there should be some setting somewhere for speeds. Usually under the power section. Depends on the BIOS.