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Asus RAID problem

Hi I got an Asus computer new that supports raid, I was trying to setup two ssd 2 Teribite drives in mirrored mode.  I go to the EZ Tuning Wizard, then switch from OC to RAID, it allows me to choose SATA after that I get no avalable disk drives.  They are in and the bios sees them, just not in the RAID menu.

Thanks a ton.
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cool, thanks David, I was wondering about that, thank you I will try that tomorow.
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Non the formatted, they are right out of the box.  I haven't been back there yet to try anything, ill try today.

Gerald, I thought fake raid was software raid.  I would do that but it's going to be an esxi server and I don't think they have that option.
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thanks guys, I tried the other ports  no go, then I saw I hadn't updated the mb firmware, I thought I did, anyhoo, after that all was well, raid happend and esxi is on its way to this box.
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tx for the update
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No FakeRAID is the Software assisted Hardware RAID controllers that are built-in on the motherboard - they are notorious for cuasing problems and losing data.
True Software RAID such as RAID-1 in Windows is more reliable and can also give better performance!
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Oh, thanks, but with VMWare I don't think that is an option.
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Gerald, is like an onboard Perc Dell controller still Fake RAID?  They have given me issues in the past.  Do you have recomendations on a 300 dollar or so RAID controller for raid 1for just ssd drives, not san disks.

Thanks a ton.