Crosshair x670e Extreme - Before I RMA has anyone got the RAID to work right on SATA

[decimus28]

Just wanted to know if anyone has gotten the RAIDXpert2 raid to work right for SATA drives on Windows 11 Pro before I RMA the board. By work I mean not go offline when the computer sleeps. I've done a lot of frustrating troubleshooting and I cannot get it to work correctly. I would love to know what HDD and drivers work for others. Especially if someone has gotten Exos 18TB or IronWolf Pro 18TB to work.

[Murph_9000]

I had a brief play with RAIDXpert2 on the Crosshair VIII Extreme (X570S) on Windows 11 Pro, before deciding that it didn't look much like a reliable product (the AMD software part of it). I've got decades of experience with all sorts of hardware and software RAID, and I just didn't feel confident in relying on it. I also played around with old school Windows NT striping and mirroring a bit, before deciding to go with the modern Windows Storage Spaces. There's pros and cons with Storage Spaces, but I satisfied myself that it wasn't terribly likely to either just dump my data or be a constant admin headache; a few months later, it has been trouble free and I'm fairly happy with it. The basic Windows 11 Pro Storage Spaces UI is just the tip of a much bigger iceberg, there's a lot of additional functionality available via PowerShell.

I've got a mix of Seagate Firecuda SATA SSD and HDD happily running under Storage Spaces.

[decimus28]

Thanks, I think I might try storage spaces for my data and maybe a Thunderbolt DAS like terramaster for my older games. It just really bums me out that I can't get the SATA raid to work with this board. The NVME m.2 work fine as RAID 0.