Aspire A515-57 - Is there a way to make a RAID 0? The Laptop is unable to run RAID?

alejito480
alejito480 Member Posts: 3 New User
edited January 16 in Aspire Laptops

Hello. i recently bought the Aspire A515-57 (i7 version, with iGPU). I added a second M2 NVME on the free slot and then i tried to change the SATA mode to RAID, but the option is dissapeared from BIOS. I tried the CTRL + S on MAIN, but doesn't show the option anywhere on BIOS. The Laptop is unable to run RAID?. IRST Utility don't let me make a RAID 0 for some reason.

Any help is deeply apreciated.

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Best Answer

  • StevenGen
    StevenGen ACE Posts: 12,180 Trailblazer
    edited January 15 Answer ✓

    Your Aspire A515-57 SSD1 boot drive is a Gen 4 x4 lane M.2 SSD drive, why do you need RAID? The PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSDs are faster than Raid 0 or 1, as these Raid 0 and 1 were used when hard drives were slow and like the speeds of the SATA-1 0r 2 or 3 speeds, you don't need Raid 0 or 1 in a laptop these days as you will lose capacity and if one drive crashes you will lose all your data. The bottom line is this, that a Gen 4 x4 lane M.2 SSD drive that your Aspire A515-57 has is faster than RAID 0 and allot safer for your data than a Raid array will give you. Leave your laptop oem as its a great laptop, My 12-year-old son is using one that I've upgraded its boot drive to a 1TB Samsung 990 Pro M.2 and its an excelled and very quick sequential read/write laptop. Good luck and hope this helps you out and saves you allot of pain setting a Raid array that you don't need 😀

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  • StevenGen
    StevenGen ACE Posts: 12,180 Trailblazer
    edited January 15 Answer ✓

    Your Aspire A515-57 SSD1 boot drive is a Gen 4 x4 lane M.2 SSD drive, why do you need RAID? The PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSDs are faster than Raid 0 or 1, as these Raid 0 and 1 were used when hard drives were slow and like the speeds of the SATA-1 0r 2 or 3 speeds, you don't need Raid 0 or 1 in a laptop these days as you will lose capacity and if one drive crashes you will lose all your data. The bottom line is this, that a Gen 4 x4 lane M.2 SSD drive that your Aspire A515-57 has is faster than RAID 0 and allot safer for your data than a Raid array will give you. Leave your laptop oem as its a great laptop, My 12-year-old son is using one that I've upgraded its boot drive to a 1TB Samsung 990 Pro M.2 and its an excelled and very quick sequential read/write laptop. Good luck and hope this helps you out and saves you allot of pain setting a Raid array that you don't need 😀

    If this answers your question and solved your query please "Click on Yes" or "Click on Like" if you find my answer useful👍