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I have 5 Kingston KC300 240 GB SSDs. &nbsp;I have a LSI Megaraid 9285CV-8e RAID card version 5.5. &nbsp;My motherboard is ASRock E3C204-4L with latest available BIOS. &nbsp;<br />
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The SSDs are not detected by the RAID card. &nbsp;I also tried a Seagate 1 TB HDD and also did not detect it. &nbsp; I loaded the UEFI defaults in the BIOS but they are still not detected. &nbsp;On bootup the POST screen says 0 logical drives detected and after logging into the server and launching ServerView RAID Manager, it sees the card but no drives. &nbsp;All 5 drives are connected to the ports using SFF8087 cables.<br />
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Any suggestions?
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I have 5 Kingston KC300 240 GB SSDs.  I have a LSI Megaraid 9285CV-8e RAID card version 5.5.  My motherboard is ASRock E3C204-4L with latest available BIOS.  

The SSDs are not detected by the RAID card.  I also tried a Seagate 1 TB HDD and also did not detect it.   I loaded the UEFI defaults in the BIOS but they are still not detected.  On bootup the POST screen says 0 logical drives detected and after logging into the server and launching ServerView RAID Manager, it sees the card but no drives.  All 5 drives are connected to the ports using SFF8087 cables.

Any suggestions?

Disks not detected by RAID card

RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks.

RAID is data storage technology that allows multiple drives to be used together as a single virtual drive for reasons such as fault tolerance, reliability and performance. 

There are several different levels of RAID that determine how the data is stored and the level of redundancy achieved across the drives.

RAID

Storage devices include any device used for storing and retrieving digital information. Hard disk drives (HDDs) use one or more rigid ("hard") rapidly rotating disks (platters) coated with magnetic material. Data is accessed in a random-access manner, meaning that individual blocks of data can be stored or retrieved in any order and not only sequentially. The primary competing technology for secondary storage is flash memory in the form of solid-state drives (SSDs), but HDDs remain the dominant medium for secondary storage due to advantages in price per bit and per-device recording capacity. CD-RW (Compact Disc-ReWritable) is a digital optical disc storage format that allows information to be stored outside the mechanical HDD.

Storage Hardware

Computer data storage, often called storage or memory, is a technology consisting of computer components and recording media used to retain digital data. In addition to local storage devices like CD and DVD readers, hard drives and flash drives, solid state drives can hold enormous amounts of data in a very small device. Cloud services and other new forms of remote storage also add to the capacity of devices and their ability to access more data without building additional data storage into a device.