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    AW 17 R3 & NVMe PM951 = RAID or AHCI?

    Discussion in '2015+ Alienware 13 / 15 / 17' started by syrias, Dec 23, 2015.

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    Hello everyone.
    I recently purchased an AW 17 R3 with a 256 NVMe PM951 SSD.
    I noticed that the initial setting in BIOS was RAID. After i formatted both disks (it has an extra 1 TB HDD),
    I did a clean installation of windows 10 but after finishing the installation the SSD was no longer visible with the RAID setting on. It was only visible (and bootable) with AHCI setting.

    My first question is whether there are any permormance drawbacks when in AHCI or is it the same thing with RAID?
    The second question is, in a future windows 10 clean installation how can i set the setting in RAID and be able to boot from the NVMe SSD?

    Thanks!
     
    syrias, Dec 23, 2015
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