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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with AMD processors => Topic started by: leonardo on October 26, 2013, 11:59:07 am

Title: raid
Post by: leonardo on October 26, 2013, 11:59:07 am

Yesterday I got a motherboard GA-990-FXA-UD3, my first gigabyte board brand, really impressed with what I have read about her, very good, I come from a Asus M2N-SLI-Deluxe, a old board, but still in 2013, gets the job done, and very well, but now my new toy is GA-990-FXA-UD3.

    My question is about the RAID configuration, I had the following configuration on my asus (very easy to do raid on asus boards):

   2x seagate 500G HD in RAID 0
   1x seagate 500G HD non RAID


   Can someone help me do this on this board, do not have much experience with raid, as I said, the utility asus bios, it was very easy to do, I have difficulty understanding how it works in gigabyte ... ???

Thanks in advance ...

Title: Re: raid
Post by: autotech on October 26, 2013, 12:59:04 pm

Didnt it come with a manual. Hit the F4 key to enter raid utility and then build you raid. I would leave the 3rd hard drive disconnected until after windows is installed. Choose Raid0 then pick your two hard drives then hit F10 to save and exit.
 Anyway it is under perpherals set it to raid and when the time comes if it ask for drivers pit in the gigabyte disk and find the controller for raid usually AHCIx64 if you are using 64 bit system. Is pretty simple really once you do it you will wonder why you even asked this question...lol

BTW welcome to the gigabyte forum.

Title: Re: raid
Post by: leonardo on October 26, 2013, 01:31:10 pm

I'll try when I get home ... at work right now, very anxious to see my new toy in action ... Thanks for the tip ...

I have a doubt too, as I leave the setup configured?? I have to leave RAID marked there before entering the RAID configurator (F4)?

** ask this because they disappear when selected in the raid setup ...

Thanks!!! ;)

Title: Re: raid
Post by: autotech on October 27, 2013, 02:10:20 am

you have to enter raid config and build your raid first then you have to load raid driver to see the drives.

Title: Re: raid
Post by: leonardo on October 28, 2013, 10:40:31 am

Thanks for the tips, I got really odd was finding my 3rd hd does not appear in the setup when I would select raid mode, but that's okay, I found that I have to add the 3rd hd (no raid), also in the setup, (in boot) ok now ...

Thank you!

Title: Re: raid
Post by: autotech on October 28, 2013, 11:20:12 pm

It is because you are make the 2 disk look like one after you do that and install winows to your raid 0 It turns into JBOD which is raid 0 plus your other drive. Got me the first time i did it also i actually had to google JBOD to learn it meant just a bunch of disk....lol