Configured the two drives in Raid 1 mirror in Gigabyte Bios “Easy Raid”, booted PC formatted to NTFS and allocated the drive letter in Windows 10. On SATA ports 2 and 3 are two 2 TB Seagate 3.5 Firecuda hybrid Hard Drives configured in raid mirror, one drive reported a failure, I exchanged the drive under 5-year warranty and re-installed. On SATA ports 0 and 1 are two 1 TB Gigabyte SSD’s configured in raid 1 mirror, they give no issues are stable, initialised, and verified. If the two slots M2M and M2A are utilised in Raid with SSD’s then only the remaining raid ports SATA 0,I,2 & 3 on the Z390 chip can be used for Raid, ports SATA 4 and 5 due limited number of lanes on the Z390 chip cannot be utilised for raid and because of these limitations I do not use ports SATA 4 and 5. The Two O/S Samsung PCIe SSD’s on slots M2M and M2A configured in Raid 1 mirror give no issues are stable, initialised, and verified. The system is extremely fast and very stable and has been in this condition since build July 2019.
#SSD WILL NOT INITIALIZE DRIVERS#
I have also installed the Intel Driver & Support assistant to keep the complete MoBo and its Intel drivers and software up to date, this is checked weekly and all intel drivers and software are up to date. I have also installed an up to date version of Intel Memory and storage tool GUI. I have all the current Intel Raid drivers from Gigabyte which are compatible with Windows V 2004, I am also running the most current Intel Memory and storage management software to manage all raid arrays. The O/S is Widows 10 Pro Version 2004 running at 64bit, it is installed on two Samsung PCIe SSD’s on slots M2M and M2A of the MoBo configured in Raid 1 mirror. I have a Gigabyte Z390 Intel Chip AORUS XTREME WATERFORCE MoBo, with 64GB of memory overclocked to turbo speed with an Intel i9-9900k overclocked to 4.5GHz.