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AW17 R2, old raid? Need new BIOS.
Being bored, and looking at the initial bios now that its on the website, while looking at the BIOS structure for the AW17 R2 Bios version A00, I have to ask being a new machine, why did the engineers use "Intel(R) RAID for SATA - v10.0.0.1046"?? We have M.2 cards and this BIOS will not support proper TRIM support, nor proper RAID support with these cards. Since the M.2 looks to be Sata3 based and not PCIe based, why the decision to use a RAID OROM that's from 2010??? Can we get at least a v13 raid orom without modifying the BIOS and voiding warranty for BIOS A01? This is using HM87 Express and therefore, 12.8 and lower isn't even properly supported!! Otherwise, we can't use proper RAID with the m.2 cards without definite data loss.. Thanks.
Update: M18X R2 BIOS A11, RAID Orom is v11.6.0.1702....
AW17 R1 BIOS A14 has v12.0.0.1783
AW18 BIOS A10 has v12.0.0.1783 also
So, why does AW17 R2 have v10.0.0.1046?? Possibly just an oversight? Can this be passed on to a Dell Engineer? This makes no sense and it won't allow us to use our M.2 drives in a proper and SAFE RAID without 13.0 or higher. Thanks again!
Thanks for letting me know. My concern now is, what do we do till then if we want to raid our cards? TRIM won't be supported as soon as we make an array. The Intel Rapid Storage software that's on Dell's site is 13.1, and we MIGHT see an update in March?... I'm actually quite shocked and disappointed that these machines give us the "best" specs available in a laptop format, but the internal BIOS is using outdated ORom's limiting us in some features, and even the best speeds.. I haven't checked the others in the BIOS and now I'm afraid of what I might find. :( (Like the Video ORom and such)..
EDIT: Go ahead and considered this fixed. I've gone ahead and updated all the EFI modules myself for my BIOS. Now to just figure out to unlock the RAID option since the ORom is there, but no option to raid in BIOS. A removed feature? Why!? Thanks!
Sorry to bump this, but it seems A02 has Rapid Storage 13.2.0.2134 now. But, we need an option to enable this.. Can you ask them why this was disabled? Being an Aptio V Bios this is an easy fix with the Ami software, but for us, we can't just unlock this option yet. Thanks!!
Hate to bump this, but any news on a RAID 0 option? Looking in the Intel rapid storage software in Windows, the ports are properly seen, just can't create a RAID array and the OpRom is in the BIOS so this option is already there, just no option to enable it..
Also, Intel Rapid Storage is useless installed unless your using RAID, but its been pre-installed by Dell, this is why I thought the BIOS was just an oversight as the OpRom was installed also...
I have 4 512GB SSD m.2s installed but I would love to enable RAID 0 on the system to get more speed.
Thanks!
As of this moment, there is no publicly available BIOS with Raid support for the Echo line (The current AW laptop line).
Adapter makes no difference sadly, I have a 180W and a 330W... :(
Why Dell hasn't released anything for RAID is unknown to me. I am waiting for one more tool from a friend then I will do it myself if needed.
The ram included is SK Hynix PC3L - 12800S - 11 - 13 - F3, so I installed Corsair Vengeance CMSX16GX3M2A1600C10 16GB 2X8GB DDR3-1600 CL10-10-10-27 and it works fine.
If you buy faster speed ram, it will only run at the speed needed, but it should support up to 2133Mhz
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Thanks!