2017 Hardware Thread

Yep, that's how it's here too:

Now I have 2 more SSDs to move around. 240GB is going to get my W7 on this computer (made MR backup of it this morning) and smaller one 120GB is going to other machine with W10 non Skippy.

Hey Count, as a side note, you can also use Intel RST instead of the Samsung M.2 drivers in a pinch.
And they work just as well.

To do it you need to switch from AHCI to RAID in BIOS, that also lets you see the M.2 drive inside of BIOS.

I found out about this when I was testing something else I had read(forgot what it was though).

Cliff S said:

Hey Count, as a side note, you can also use Intel RST instead of the Samsung M.2 drivers in a pinch.
And they work just as well.

To do it you need to switch from AHCI to RAID in BIOS, that also lets you see the M.2 drive inside of BIOS.

I found out about this when I was testing something else I had read(forgot what it was though).

But it's on AMD Ryzen platform. Only Intel "thing" is network chip.

CountMike said:

But it's on AMD Ryzen platform. Only Intel "thing" is network chip.

Ok, but does AMD have a RAID option in BIOS?

But before trying there is a warning, I forgot to mention,
I just found my post about it: Show off your PC! - Page 69 - Windows 10 Forums

Cliff S said:

Ok, but does AMD have a RAID option in BIOS?

But before trying there is a warning, I forgot to mention,
I just found my post about it: Show off your PC! - Page 69 - Windows 10 Forums

There's RAID too but needs AMD drivers. There's no legacy (IDE) mode, just AHCI and RAID. There's also (in another section) CSM compatibility settings which should be same as IDE mode and windows as installed now can't boot with it on. Fast startup also works. Funny thing is that when BIOS is set to verbose mode, it doesn't list M2 at all.

CountMike said:

There's RAID too but needs AMD drivers. There's no legacy (IDE) mode, just AHCI and RAID. There's also (in another section) CSM compatibility settings which should be same as IDE mode and windows as installed now can't boot with it on. Fast startup also works. Funny thing is that when BIOS is set to verbose mode, it doesn't list M2 at all.

On my ASUS board I don't have Raid on, still on AHCI mode. But on my Boot Menu in my bios I can see all my connected hard drives just fine. My M.2 drive may not show under installed HD's, but that is no big deal to me. As long as the Asus bios sees it in my boot menu setup, thats all that matters. I don't won't to use raid, if I don't have too. Just a personal choice.

OldMike65 said:

On my ASUS board I don't have Raid on, still on AHCI mode. But on my Boot Menu in my bios I can see all my connected hard drives just fine. My M.2 drive may not show under installed HD's, but that is no big deal to me. As long as the Asus bios sees it in my boot menu setup, thats all that matters. I don't won't to use raid, if I don't have too. Just a personal choice.

I was just telling the count about it, for use in a pinch:)

I can see it in the BIOS menu, just not while it's booting. I turn off Asus intro screen just to see what's going on during BOOT time. That's only place M2 is not seen.
BTW, how do you get that screen shot from BIOS ?

Cliff S said:

I was just telling the count about it, for use in a pinch:)

No reason to RAID setting, it also prolongs BOOT time as driver has to be used. On this MB even DVD drive works in AHCI mode which it couldn't in old one. All together, happy camper, once I turn off couple of things from startup, I could expect 5 - 6 seconds boot time, its almost 10 seconds now.
Just restored image to SSD in other computer (Phenom 2 x4 965BE) and boot time fell to 15 seconds from about 10 minutes on old WD Green drive. Long live SSDs !!!

CountMike said:

I can see it in the BIOS menu, just not while it's booting. I turn off Asus intro screen just to see what's going on during BOOT time. That's only place M2 is not seen.
BTW, how do you get that screen shot from BIOS ?

Easy Mike :) put in a usb stick, then whatever screen you want to print, click F12 and it will show you your usb stick, hit enter. After you save your pic thou Mike, if you want to Display those pics on here, you need to change the format to like .png or jpg, something our forum accepts. :)