Help with dual SSD's

I've been running the Samsung Evo 840 in my laptop with the factory 750 gb HDD in the second bay for the past couple weeks. I had it set up in AHCI and had the music and pictures subfolders linked to the HDD and it was always slow to load everything. So I picked up a 128 gb SSD at Office Depot today on sale and I can't get it to install in AHCI but it installs in RAID with no problem. When I install Windows on the Samsung SSD and add the Toshiba SSD after, it won't let me add the drive and format it. I can see it in Disk Management and in the BIOS.

Any idea what the problem is? Is it a driver installation error during Windows installation? Keep getting errors when trying to format and add the Toshiba. Really wanted it setup in AHCI and I also hate seeing that RAID screen right after powering on.

 

You can run the laptop in RAID mode just fine without actually using a raid. Don't know why it would not be cooperating in AHCI but if it runs fine in RAID I would just leave it in that and be done with it.

 

Are you using one of your SSDs as a caching drive? What are the sizes of Tosh and Samsung SSDs? If both are over 100GB, you can just install OS to the fastest SSD and use another SSD for a fast storage (for game installation dir or something like that). You would not need RAID at all and be able to use AHCI in BIOS settings. Also your laptop model (new AW 17, R4, R3 etc) and Windows version would help diagnosing the problem.

 

I got it fixed. The Toshiba SSD must have not liked the HDD2 bay. Put the Toshiba 120G SSD in bay 1 and put my Samsung 250G SSD in bay 2 and installed Windows on the Toshiba and have all my programs and games on the Samsung. Got it set up in AHCI and all is working well.

 

AWESOME! We are glad that the PC is doing fine now. :thumbsup:

 

Thank you! I love this laptop and I will deff buy Alienware again. I just had one issues when installing drivers. I'm running Windows 8.1 update 1 with all latest updates and I have one driver that's not working and that's the Intel Thermal Framework. Seems the only driver was for Windows 8 and I installed that one but it says the device cannot start.

And here are my specs incase needed
Intel i7 4700MQ
16g RAM
770M
Toshiba 120G SSD
Samsung 250G SSD

 

Can you post the HW Id's here?
go to Device Manager, right click on the device, properties, Details.

 

Here ya go
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_8C24&SUBSYS_05AA1028&REV_05
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_8C24&SUBSYS_05AA1028
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_8C24&CC_118000
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_8C24&CC_1180

 

Is it the pci data acquisition and signal processing controller? Is there even a driver for that

 

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