In the BIOS (to access the BIOS, tap the F2 button during boot), go to Advanced menu and set the SATA Operation to RAID. Then go to the BOOT menu and make sure Secure Boot is enabled. Save these changes with the F10 key and restart the system.
The Alienware does indeed support raiding, I am currently running a raid with 2 NVMe SSD SM951 drives.
However, it will *not* support a raid between two drives that use different protocols, IE SATA vs PCIe/NVMe. You can raid a SATA m.2 with a SATA 2.5", or you can Raid 2 NVMe/PCIe based SSD drives together.
When 2 drives are detected that support raiding together, a new option will appear: "Create Raid Array" and will walk you through the steps to create one.
Keep in mind, installing to the raid array during windows installs will need an external driver to be loaded during the windows install process in order for it to be recognized as a target for installing
you can get the external driver from https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/25165/Intel-Rapid-Storage-Technology-Intel-RST-RAID-Driver
Alienware - Rodrigo
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January 8th, 2016 15:00
Hi,
In the BIOS (to access the BIOS, tap the F2 button during boot), go to Advanced menu and set the SATA Operation to RAID. Then go to the BOOT menu and make sure Secure Boot is enabled. Save these changes with the F10 key and restart the system.
michaum
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January 8th, 2016 21:00
its already like that but it still says Status: Non Raid ? did I do something wrong?
Alienware - Rodrigo
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January 14th, 2016 15:00
Hi,
Unfortunately, the BIOS does not support a RAID configuration on the Alienware Echo 17 R3 model.
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August 6th, 2016 15:00
The Alienware does indeed support raiding, I am currently running a raid with 2 NVMe SSD SM951 drives.
However, it will *not* support a raid between two drives that use different protocols, IE SATA vs PCIe/NVMe. You can raid a SATA m.2 with a SATA 2.5", or you can Raid 2 NVMe/PCIe based SSD drives together.
When 2 drives are detected that support raiding together, a new option will appear: "Create Raid Array" and will walk you through the steps to create one.
Keep in mind, installing to the raid array during windows installs will need an external driver to be loaded during the windows install process in order for it to be recognized as a target for installing
you can get the external driver from https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/25165/Intel-Rapid-Storage-Technology-Intel-RST-RAID-Driver