It's that easy you can configure a disk RAID on GIGABYTE boards

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Many times you will have thought that it is a good idea to have a RAID system of hard drives on your PC, but that doing so involves too much work or complication and in the end it is forgotten. Well, it is easier than it seems, and then we will show you how to configure a RAID hard disk drive on GIGABYTE or AORUS motherboards.

To begin, we will need, of course, at least two hard drives or SSDs, as this is what we need to create a RAID 0 or RAID 1 volume. We could also create RAID 5 or 10 volumes, which is what the motherboards allow. desktop computers, but in these cases we would need a minimum of 3 and 4 disks respectively.

The process is exactly the same, but selecting the type of RAID that suits us and the corresponding disks, so let's explain it with two units nothing more. That said, let's start.
Install hard drives or SSD

Obviously, the first step is to install hard drives or SSDs in our system. For this tutorial, we are going to think about units with SATA 3 connectivity, since for PCIe devices the process is different. Once the two disks with which we want to do the RAID are installed and connected to the SATA ports of the motherboard, we can go to the next point.

Configure the SATA controller

We start on the device and press the DELETE key to enter the BIOS during the POST. Once in the BIOS, we must go to the Peripherals section and then to SATA Configuration. Once there, we must ensure that we check the RAID option in SATA Mode Selection.

SATA Mode Selection in Gigabyte BIOS

Now we simply exit the BIOS saving the changes (Save & Exit).

If we want to configure, instead, the UEFI RAID mode (only Windows 8.1 and Windows 10, but it is the most recommended option), we must instead access the BIOS but the BIOS Features section, and then mark the CSM Support option as deactivated

RAID on Gigabyte boards disable CSM

Now, we save the changes and leave the BIOS, but as soon as we restart the computer we will have to enter the BIOS again by pressing DELETE again during the POST to proceed to the next step.
Create a RAID volume on GIGABYTE or AORUS boards

Then, we will access Peripherals and the Intel (R) Rapid Storage Technology option.

Intel Rapid Storage Technology for RAID on Gigabyte boards

Within this menu, we place the cursor over "Create RAID Volume" and press the ENTER key to create it. It will ask us for some information, such as the name of the volume (up to 16 characters), the RAID level (in this case there are only two disks so it offers us Stripe (RAID 0) or Mirror (RAID 1), but if there were more discs we would also offer the other RAID levels). Select the option that interests us and press ENTER.

RAID levels on Gigabyte board

The next step is to go down with the arrow keys to the "Select Disks" option to select the disks that we want to be part of the RAID volume. Simply position yourself and press the space bar to include them (they will be marked with an X). After this, we will be asked to select the block size, which can range from 4 to 128 KB. Normally, with 16 KB we have plenty.

Once we have selected this, you will be asked to select the size, although by default it will already come with the maximum available and we can leave it that way. After that, the "Create Volume" option that was in gray will have already been blank, which means that we can get on top and give INTRO to create the volume.

After completing the creation process we will be returned to the previous menu, but now we will show the volume we have created, giving us the option to delete it if we want.

RAID volume created on Gigabyte boards

Ready, we have already created the RAID volume so we can exit the BIOS and install the operating system. Windows 10 already has the preloaded RAID drivers, so during installation it will already detect the volume we have created as if it were an individual hard drive, but we will know that, at the BIOS level, what we have is a disk RAID.