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WD SSD Dashboard not working with AMD RAIDXpert2
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It’s pretty normal. Samsung Magician doesn’t see my 2 850 EVO in RAID.
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That's because drives in RAID are not reported to the OS as the original drives but as a RAID drive. Of course, that RAID array is going to get extremely slow over time too, thanks to AMD not supporting TRIM on SSDs in RAID...
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Yes, because the fundamental misunderstanding is that this is limited to AMDs implementation of RAID. It's not. Intels software RAID, LSI, ADAPTEC all these software and hardware RAID technologies/backplanes/controllers do this.
If the controller exposes it you might be able to see the type of disk used, and in some cases even see SMART details, but the actual interfacing to the drives themselves are handled by the RAID controller itself. Depending on the implementation and exposure to the OS you can even run things like TRIM.
Almost always though, will you lose the ability to use speciality tools. Shit the only way I can interface with my Intel and LSI RAID arrays with with RSTe or the MegaRAID software. The OS even loses the ability to poll the disk, with the status totally disappearing from say the task manager.
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RSTe in Linux will do this, but not when I last used Windows, at least not in a way that is available to the user. The raid device just gets its own block device managed by the linux device mapper, the underlying disks are still exposed to the OS and you can still do things like hdparm and smartctl the individual disks.
Also holy thread necro, Batman!
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In windows I can still poll smart data and see individual disks with RSTe. I think that in RSTe's case it has more to do with the mobo implementation of Intels software RAID then RSTe itself and to be honest I've only ever used RSTe on Haswell-E/EP and newer.
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It depends on the driver with every fake raid implementation. I'm pretty sure you don't get access to the disks with AMD RAID in Linux and they don't get remapped by the device mapper and show up as a normal disk. All in all, I think AMD's raid implementation kind of sucks beyond just this (don't get me started on RAID-5 performance.) Back when I had a NAS, I gave up on AMD RAID because it was hot garbage and just fell back on mdadm which worked flawlessly (and with great read performance I might add.)
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I generally use mdadm as well when im using linux at least. I personally haven't used AMDs RAID in production and haven't touched AMD RAID since idk the mid 2000s. Good to know though, thanks.
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What bothers me isn’t the software(don’t need or use it)it’s the fact then when I built the rig last summer I could still see my 2 legacy SATA devices(one SSD and one HDD) but somewhere in the fast and furious AGESA updates they disappeared. I used these same array on my previous Intel build and could always see everything. Crystaldisk could even see the individual SSDs in my array. AMD when set to RAID all disks all but “disappear” TRIM isn’t an issue tho.