Is is possible to disable the RAID 0 in the BIOS and use both SSD independently?
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I have this exact model and in my BIOS I can choose "SATA Mode" to be either "RAID" or "AHCI". It's set to RAID, and if I try to set it to AHCI it won't boot to windows. Probably because the partitions are unreadable as they were made in RAID mode. But, if you care enough to install the OS from scratch, you can probably set it to AHCI and use your two independently.
1366633
This model does not have RAID 0. Only the very top end model has tha(UX301-XH71T I think)--Edit: Apparently I was incorrect, as the person in the comment reply below said this model does in fact have Raid 0 (according to "Properties" of the 2 partitions, OS and DATA). There is no option in the BIOS to disable this, which is unfortunate. Although RAID 0 using SSDs is not nearly as dangerous for your data as with a normal hard-drive since a failure is so unlikely.
800516
Can you run RAID that way? Id like to install 2 2TB drives, for large capacity RAID.
2107966
Yes. Configuring the drives as RAID0 or JBOD will give you combined size of all drives with no redundancy presented to Windows as a single logical drive.
1864510
Yes I have 1 ssd and 1 bluray burner and 1 drive but i could put 4 in raid 5 if i wanted too! Hope this helps
117366
No, I am using it in a non-raid setup. I did try to use it with a 2 TB drive as a 4th drive. It didn't work. I then put a 500 MB drive on it and it worked. I put the 2 TB directly on a standard sata port.
754617
I have one of these set up with standard drives and am able to run two VMs at the same time easily. I assume that SSDs would make it a bit faster though.
1892828
Yes, SD in drive bay is OK. There is also an mSATA connector on the mother board that can be used for SSD.
1731448
Yes, you can just use it as a regular SATA controller, you don't have to set up RAID if you don't want to. That's how I use it.
1011699
If you are asking if you can set up two independent 4 drive Raid arrays the answer is yes. Whether or not the single Raid array can serve as a "hot" standby for the other I don't know but I would doubt it.
2029839
Its a RAID 0 (two drives splitting the data) with two 128gb SSD's creating a logical 256gb hard drive.
923996
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.
1561531
Yes, I have done so on both of mine. Suggest a USB. If you add one internally the BIOS will "yell at you for having opened the chassis". Not a big deal to turn off but.... In any event, I have an internal on one and a USB on the other. Little or no difference in performance.
2041004
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.
230093
Yes, I have two internal drives running off this card, paired in a RAID 1, set up through Win 7. If your motherboard and OS supports RAID, it's not a problem.
2215019
Thank you. The board is an ASUS Sabertooth Z87 with a RAID controller onboard. I want to use both a RAID data array and SSD drives for OS. I am told the board can do this but I'm unsure about setup of this feature and thought the card may be an easier way to control the array and set the BIOS for hot swap SATA and let the card control the array. Maybe I should look at a different RAID card.
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With a raid card you wont have to rely on getting the same motherboard chipset that the raid was created on which can be difficult a few years after purchase. You can just pop this in a new motherboard and it would just work without worries of having to reconfigure onboard raid and risk corrupting or overwriting the data already on the drives, which is way to easy to do.
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RAID 0,1 and SHR (Synology Hybrid Raid). With only 2 drives you can't get 5.