I have update. I bouth adapter for PCIe, and speeds are still the same. I think nothing left than raise request to WD. :(

It is time for RMA then...

HI Team,

I have A super Micro X9DRW-iF MB which I did BIOS mod to add NVME driver in order to be able to boot from NVME SSD. the SSD is readable in the BIOS and Also I had installed the OS on it. I have a pair of M.2 NVME SSD WD SN750 where I want to install them as RAID 1 Mirror and install the OS on them ( they are connected to PCIE X4 Adapter each SSD in different PCIE adapter) . when I try to use the Intel onboard Raid to create a VD, the raid controller doesn't read them to be included with the other SATA HDD's i am connecting to the board. I wonder if there is any way to add a driver to the controller so it can read the NVME SSD and list it with the other SATA HDD's?

Thanks
Ahmed

@Miko

This is RSTe 4.6. RSTe 4.5 was quite restricted regarding use NVME disks, and especially non- Intel disks- see 2.2 in
https://www.intel.com/content/dam/suppor...duct%20Spec.pdf

Afaik from 5.0 RSTe was renamed to VROC and NVME Raid was a premium feature to be enabled by a hardware key.

@Fernando @lfb6
I am a bit lost here , I wonder If i can achieve that with my Supermicro X9DRW-iF which has Intel® C602 chipset and Originally the BIOS didn't support NVME as bootable device but added the drives and now can boot from it?
is there away to upgrade the raid controller firmware on the board to allow it to read the NVME and create NVME Raid Array?
Also I am using the SCU SATA connection to connect another 4 HDD's and it use also the same Intel Raid controller but it come separately in a different screen so not sure if that will help or not.

Thanks guys for the quick response and I hope we can figure it out which will be a big deal.
Regards
Ahmed

@Miko SCU ports are served by separate bios module, I assume that's the reason for coming in a separate screen.



Otherwise I'm pretty sure that Fernando is right here. RSTe modules were restricitve regarding accepted NVME disks (only Intel branded) and/ or NVME Raid was in later versions a feature one had to pay for. So even if you'd update yout bios to a NVME raid capable version you'd have the restrictions on supported NVME disks and you still lack the hardware to connect a hardware license key. For supported 3rd party ssd list and VROC handling see
https://www.intel.com/content/dam/suppor...Configs_6-3.pdf
https://www.supermicro.com/manuals/other...MOD_Windows.pdf

@Fernando @lfb6
Thank you guys for all the support,

I wonder if there is a raid Controller card which I can add through PCIe can solve the issue? all I am trying to do is to create a raid 1 from the 2 SSD's I am having where the OS will be installed Just to avoid reinstall the OS again from Scratch if the SSD fail.
Please advise, your help much appreciated.

Thanks
Ahmed

After long time finally new Intel NVME driver version 5.1.0.1003. With my Intel 900P I even got better CrystalDiskMark results than with previous version 4.4.0.1003. Support for Windows 7 got removed in this version.

Hello

These new drivers do not have the "IaNVMeF.sys" file,
Is that okay ?

Thanks

@Fernando
With the latest v5 platform Intel NVMe driver (v5.1.0.1003), (non RSTe), the shutdown/sleep/awake problems are now fixed on my ASUS X99 pc using i750 SSD (C: drive) under W10 x64 20H2.