@100PIER Hello! Can you chime in/assist? The Raid Array shows "YES" under the Bootable column in the IRSTE menu. I've always ran my server boot drivers off of of a raid array. If this is not a good idea I would like to know. (I could always get another drive as my boot drive and then use my raid array for storage) I can swap the drives from the S-SATA0~3 to the I-SATA0~5 but why if they all support raid equally? I loaded this file to get windows to see my raid array ">Intel RSTe RAID Drivers & Software Set v7.5.0.1991 for Win8-10 x64< Windows was able to load the driver from the iaStorB+iaStorE Folder" Fernando said this was the wrong driver? This driver allows windows to see my raid array and begin installation but after the setup it requires a reboot to complete it seems to lose sight of the drives as it reboots to the flash drive trying to install windows again. Is it an issue to be installing Windows from a USB and trying to Load the Raid driver off of a separate USB? Not sure if they need injected into the Windows Bootable ISO so it doesn't lose sight after the reboot? Not sure if the raid driver does not stay loaded after reboot and that's why its dropping sight or if I have the wrong drivers installed.

@Gara2013
I am not familiar with your mboard.
On my side I do use a ASUS Sabertooth x99 platform with this quite and strong and stable configuration described on this screenshot:


As Fernando does recommend it is not a good idea to boot off W10 from a RAID0 drives volume.
It is more performant, stable, quite easy to install to use a simple NVMe SSD (512GB size is sufficient).
Have a look on the screenshot for the Intel driver versions used to handle the SATA RAID0 volumes and the SATA AHCI devices.
On my system SATA Controller1 does support "RAID Mode" and SATA Controller2 does support only "AHCI Mode".

My Mobo does not have a NVMe slot, however I did pick up an PCIe to NVME riser card in hopes of getting one. So if I get a NVME drive and get my OS put on it what would you do with my raid array? Should I leave it on the S-SATA0~3 or switch it to the I-SATA0~5 if all ports support Raid per the mobo manual, I'm not sure what changing them over to the i-sata side would do? Also regarding Fernando's post I'm not sure what method I should do as he gave two:

"Upgrade the Intel RAID RSTe BIOS module(s) to the v5.5 platform and "downgrade" the in-use Intel RSTe RAID driver to the v5.5.4.1036.
OR
Furthermore I believe, that you will get better results by using the SATA ports (instead of the sSATA ones) and an Intel RST driver (instead of an RSTe one) for an Intel RAID array.

The only file I downloaded was the ">Intel RSTe RAID Drivers & Software Set v7.5.0.1991 for Win8-10 x64<" and I loaded the driver in the iaStorB+iaStorE folder to get windows to pick up my raid array. (Fernando said this was the wrong driver)

As you can see on the screenshot for my X99 machine two Intel RAID arrays are handled by the Intel RST driver v17.7.1.1010 and two SATA devices are handled by Intel sSATA AHCI v6.3.0.1022 driver.

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #2514

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• new:
  • Intel RST Drivers & Software Set v18.4.0.1004 for Win10-11 x64 dated 06/02/2021

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Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #2516

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@nosirrahx: Which are the HardwareIDs of the on-board Intel SATA resp. NVMe Controller?

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@Fernando:
No error. I right click the .inf and install, nothing happens. I point the updater in device manage to the folder and it says I have the best version installed already.

EDIT by Fernando: Unneeded fully quoted post replaced by directly addressing (to save space)