How do I checkif I installed windows in raid 0?

I have a 950 pro with windows on it now in my p770. So, how do I check if it's installed in raid0? I want faster speeds on my ssd.

 

While the setting selected in the BIOS can be RAID instead of AHCI, if you have only one 950 Pro it is definitely not in RAID0. Creating a RAID membership with dissimilar drives is possible, but not recommended. Performance will limited by the maximum speed of the slower of the two dissimilar drives.

You need two or more matching drives to have RAID. You can look in the BIOS or in Windows under Device Manager or Intel Rapid Storage Technology control panel to see if a RAID volume exists.
(RAID = Redundant Array of Independent Disks)

 

I have 1 950 pro and 1 2 tb hdd. Would that work?

Also, I did not disable the hdd when installing windows on the ssd. Is there anyway to make sure there are no boot files on the hdd?

 

No, see my edited response above. There is more than what you quoted. You need two matching drives for that to work correctly.

If you create a RAID membership from dissimilar drives, the speed will be limited to the slowest of the drives. In addition to speed, the maximum usable drive space in your example would be limited to twice the size of the smaller drive. If you had a 256GB 950 Pro and put it in a RAID membership with the 2TB HDD you would have only 512GB of usable drive space running at the speed of the HDD and the rest of the 1.5TB of drive space would be inaccessible and unusable.

 

I see. So what about the boot thing?

edit: ok this is weird, my hdd shows up in sata port 4 in the bios, but not in my computer?

 

Have you formatted it in disk management?

 

If the HDD is not formatted or even if it is and has no assigned drive letter it will not be visible in My Computer (aka This PC depending on the OS version). If Windows is installed on the 950 Pro, open Windows Disk Management Utility and assign a drive letter to the 2TB HDD and then you can see what is on it and reformat it as necessary. You will be able to see if the SSD is marked as the boot drive as well. You just want to be sure the HDD is not the boot drive before you format it. If you're not sure, remove the HDD and see if Windows boots and runs fine without it installed. If it does, then you're good to go.

 

Simply opening Disk Management, one can see where the boot files are

It will show before the C: partition saying Boot Files, Page file, etc

 

Only the ssd has boot files. but the hdd says primary partition, just like the ssd.

 

That's normal. If it does not have a drive letter assigned to it, right-click and assign one to the primary partition.

 

That's good then, you got lucky. Windows setup will only place the boot files on the secondary drive if it was initialized , meaning, if it was a brand new drive with no data, formatted and not initialized neither as MBR or GPT, then Windows will not touch it. Now since your HDD IS initialized and has data on it, if you reinstall Windows again, it WILL place the boot files on the second drive so you must have only the drive you are installing Windows on connected. If you have the Prema BIOS the. You can temporarily disable the 2nd drive so during installation Windows will not even see it making this whole process much easier than having to physically disconnect the drive.

 

Well the drives are easy to access to easiest just to pull it, or take an image backup now of your early setup install and store it away. If you ever need to recover just flash back