NEED HELP WITH RAID 0 SET UP IN MY M17X r3

Hey guys,I am having a herd time with my raid 0 set up running only in 3Gb/s. My set consists of two lintel 330ssd each 180gb. Installed in one year old M17x R3. I did a clean install of windows 7 home premium, downloaded the proper drivers, including the new Intel RST ones. I optimized for ssd and ran Crystalbenchmark getting substandard scores for my set up. Running my RST and clicking on volume it is showing my ssd running 3Gb/s data transfer. I tried flashing the bios to version 09 but no help. Tried setting bios to optimal default as suggested by forum member but no help. I would appreciate any help or suggestions on this matter!

 

It's because only 1 port was ever SATA III anyway (Port 0). So therefore when raided it will default to the lowest speed of both drives which will be SATA II.

 

I see! That is what i was afraid of. I guess not worth to raid ssd's in m17x r3.

 

Not as RAID 0 anyway no.

 

It's sad that this issue has been present since day 1 of the R3's release. Is it fixed in the R4?

 

Yes, both HDD slots are SATA III compatible in the R4.

 

do not do ssd raid 0 in R3 you will get in bsod hell.. been there done that got R4 for the pain..
it's only stable of you run bios A09 and above.
running ssd raid 0 on A08 and lower will make you crazy, one ssd on sata 3/6 fluctuating and other on sata 6 wil give a load of bsod and crashed, it's impossible to get it stable on pre A09 bios.
since a09 bios dell just disabled the 6 gb/s and then it's stable..

R4 has sata3 on both normal ports stable, msata is 3 gb/s where dell manuals says 6 gb/s.. don't even get me started on the R3 BS manual where dell says that both ports are 6GB/s which is not possible at all with the chipset.
good luck m8

 

I spent ages getting my R3 to operate the SSD at sata III, and really it didn't make any real difference in operation that I could see. Win loaded a few seconds quicker but apart from that nothing. I guess it would make quite a difference with a sata III mechanical drive...

 

Thanks for your input! Now I reset to non raid and re-installed all data with Seagate disc wizard. Did not want to go trough the hassle of another clean re-install. Put my main ssd with windows in bay 1 and still my Intel RST saying it is running only at 3Gb/s I have flashed my bios with A09. Now you guys are saying that I still cannot run my main ssd in 6Gb/s? I guess it is time to trade this machine!

 

Not in bay 1. It needs to be bay 0. (Top left side)

 

Yes! I switched bays ran crystaldisk-mark and got a bit better score but RTS still showing ssd running on 3Gb/s. I wonder if it is my bios version as Xenn0X was saying that version by Dell disabled 6Gb/s. (Bios A09)

 

gotta be on dell bios A08 or lower for to get SATA III speeds. There are also modded bios's for making this work as well. I have my SSD in the center slot, not the other slot i believe (can't remember off the top of my head).

 

Sometimes it just happen.... Mine put it on bay 0 and using Unlocked A08 BIOS but still on SATA 2 speed..... lol....

Even on RST show it SATA 3 6gb/s, but during benchmark, it's only on SATA 2......