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    m17 2019 raid 0 install

    Discussion in '2015+ Alienware 13 / 15 / 17' started by Zenobia K'eal, Dec 10, 2019.

  1. Zenobia K'eal

    Zenobia K'eal Notebook Consultant

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    hi guys i just bought a shiny new alienware m17 and bought two 1tb m.2 ssd from best buy for it, im in the midst of installing windows on it but i cant seem to find the raid driver? where is it? i tried th intel rapid storage drivers on the dells website.

    also also. will the drives in raid 0 both be running at pcie 4x? or 2x?
     
    Zenobia K'eal, Dec 10, 2019
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    xMAXIMUSx Notebook Consultant

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    F12 menu at boot logo go into raid settings, create raid volume from said drives, reboot and install windows
     
    xMAXIMUSx, Dec 10, 2019
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    There is no gain in running decent NVMe SSD's in RAID0, because you dont have 8 dedicated and isolated PCIe lanes, usually all those lanes come from the chipset and the chipset only has the QPI bus between it and the cpu that runs at PCIe x4 speed.
     
    senso, Dec 11, 2019
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