GA-Z170X-UD3 with M.2 NVME PCIE SSD and RAID 1 data drive

[richardnau]

Greetings,

I've just built a new system:
GA-Z170X-UD3 (F4 BIOS)
Samsung 950 Pro M.2 NVME PCIE SSD boot drive
2 x SATA HDD to be configured as RAID 1 data storage drive
32GB Corsair RAM
Clean install of Win 10 (not cloned from something else).

The 950 Pro SSD is installed in M2A-32G.

I initially installed the OS (from USB drive) with only the SSD connected. It installed and booted fine. Runs super fast.

I then connected one of the HDDs, left the SATA settings at AHCI. All ok: I can see my old data on the drive, system continues to boot from SSD and is stable.

Problems occur when I switch the SATA settings (in BIOS) from AHCI to RAID. No matter what combination of settings I try (Win8/10 mode or Other OS mode, CSM enabled or disabled, etc.), as soon as SATA controller is set to RAID, I am no longer able to see or boot from the SSD.

Other observations:
I can never see any options/details in the NVME Configuration menu in BIOS.
Some other boards seem to have a setting to ensure that the M.2 PCIE interface has access to PCIE lanes under various configuration settings - but I can find no configurable options anywhere for the PCIE interfaces (of any form).
I have avoided SATA3_4 and SATA3_5 for the SATA drives (one of these is not available when the PCIE x4 SSD is in use).

Any help would be very gratefully received.

Richard.

[dmdilks]

I could missing something here but as far as I know you can't run both at the same time. It has to be Raid or AHCI. The controller are basically the same. But you can't run both at the same time. If you want to run Raid then everything has to be Raid. If you want to run AHCI it has to be all.

[richardnau]

Thanks for reply.

Maybe I didn't say it quite right...

The SSD is on the M.2 interface, configured as PCIE/NVME (neither AHCI nor RAID).

It's the SATA ports that I am setting up for RAID. So C: will be the PCIE/NVME SSD, and E: will be the SATA/RAID 1 data storage drive. I'm pretty sure I should be able to have both...

[dmdilks]

I could be wrong because I don't have one of those board. But as far as I know all those connection M2 / Sata exp / sata all run through the Intel chipset. So if some body else is doing this on this board. You only can run IDE, AHCI, or Raid.

You can't run two of them together. You could try to call or email support.