MSI Super RAID 2 Triple mSATA Adapter Board

I bought the MSI GT70 2PE Dominator Pro 890 laptop.
Its the basic one with only 12gb ram and 1x 1tb hhd. It was $1800 vs the $2100 of the one that came with 16gb ram and a 128gb msata (includes raid board though)
I bought this one, as I already have a 1tb Samsung evo 2.5"ssd. And 2x8gb corsair vengeance ram sticks. Plus the 128gb board is rather small amount of memory, I use laptop for 3d animation and 4k video editing. 128gb would maybe fit a single project. So $300 difference for a $116 raid board, $40 4gb ram stick, and $55 for 128gb msata. I don't need/want the 4gb ram or the 128gb msata, so it would've meant paying $300 for a $116 msata raid board.
I have a raid nas server for my main editing, but when im on the go I want more storage.
I found this MSI Super RAID 2 Triple mSATA Adapter Board (supports 3 mSATA SSDs) 607-16F42-01S, its sold by MSI
http://www.amazon.com/MSI-Triple-Adapter-supports-607-16F42-01S/dp/B00JDTUZUE
This would work right? I'm fairly certain. I would just need a bios update for the raid controller to be enabled, when I go to msi and drivers for my laptop theres always 2, one for raid setup and one without.
My main question is, this board accepts 3x msata, and msi brags about this and its 1500mbps capability. But I want to know if I could use this board and not use raid. Just have 3x msata as 3 separate drives. Then dump in 3x 1tb Samsung evo msata's. And if I can, would this controller allow all separate 500-550mbps transfer, or would it limit the individual transfer rates?

I was thinking that since super raid 2 or whatever its called, fully allows all three msata drives to operate with full bandwidth while theyre in raid, hence the 1500mbps read 1000-1100 write speeds, that all sata connections are indeed full sata 3 and with/without raid would still allow full bandwidth speeds. I guess im just curious about the controller itself, being able to hand 3 separate feeds and providing optimum bandwidth to each individual drive.
My 'ideal' plans, are 1tb Samsung evo msata x3 (though the crucial m500 480gb msata on sale for $200 are quite tempting), and my 1tb Samsung evo 2.5". I'd have OS on one msata, source files on another, and output files on the third msata, with temp file/cache/scratch disk being the 2.5" drive.
Either that, or pick up the last 8gb ram stick needed to max out ram at 32gb, make a 12ish gb ram disk for scratch disk. Then use the 2.5" for files and games and such.

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Hi I've got two sandisk-x110-128gb-mlc-sata-iii-sd6sf1m ssd disk in my MSI GE70 Apache Pro I have this disks in Raid 0= MSI Super Raid but i have only read about 650 and write about 500
Test it with ATTO: http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Benchmarks/ATTO-Disk-Benchmark.shtml
and post bench results

MSI Z87-G45 Super Raid setup questions

I have a MSI Z87-G45 board and two SSD's. I have never setup raids before but plan to do so. I saw there is a app to install for Super Raid. I thought I had to setup raid before installing windows? Seeing the app is something I can download from the MSI Live Update app it makes me think I can setup this up after windows has been installed. Is this correct?
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I bet that mSATA is controlled By that same controller and so you cant use some of your SATA port same time as you use those mSATA cards, SSDs,...
To need to get in BIOS and change to RAID makes it kinda HW RAID and so that "Best Solution" is kinda wrong. As you can format it in current Windows, but you need to reg edit before or you get Blue Screen and so cant get in OS.
You have had allways chanse to use diffrent drives like HDD's and SSD's in mix When they have same data cable like SATA. The speed and size, go like allways higer rules.
I need to read more in to this Super RAID. But i ges you arent in useing mSATA, so use it like normal HW RAID and get real intel drives for it (in USB stick) before os install and install them on screen you choose your drive. That way you dont need to update them after install
Have great Hollydays! Cheers Mummy

Does the MSI GT60 Dominator PRO 2PE have super raid 2 option ?

Does it have those 3 x msata ssd slots in it even though the model just comes with 1tB HDD ?
Does it come with this super raid 2 adapter ?

Does it come with this adapter ?
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MSI Gaming GE70 2PE(Apache Pro)+Super Raid SDD?

Hello guys.. i need help about this particular Laptop...im about to buy it in portugal...and my question is...Is possible to Upgrade de internal hard drive with the Super Raid SSD?.. i mean.. this pc have the slots to instal the two SSD? apart form the HDD 1000Gb...like other models.. that already have the x2 SSD + 1HDD included.
I know that this model only have 1 disk the 1000HDD...just wondering if is possible to instal a Super Raid SSD on it..
Thanks

super raid SSD is only a function in laptop so any SSD should work as long it meets slots type like if it has msata then it's msata that counts for SSD or if it has M.2 msata or w.e new version is called then you gota make sure you buy that and so on.
Update: what i can see is that your model has 2x msata slots so you would need to buy 2x msata also you do need 2 screws since msata does not come with screws.
more info about storage can be found here
http://dragonarmy.msi.com/forum/showthread.php?t=64976#.VBhfEPl_vd4
the first picture is 2013 model while second pic is for models made in 2014

GT70-0NC SSD upgrade with Super RAID

Hello.
I have MSI GT70-0NC-51US laptop. It does not have RAID right now, but I purchased it with a thought in mind that I’d be upgrading it to Super RAID 0 as it was advertised, as some variations of this model already have Super RAID 0. Now I am ready to do it. This laptop has 750GB HDD and primary 128GB SSD. I will be replacing my current SSD with 2 new identical mSATA SSDs. What do I need for that? Will I be able to just plug 2 SSDs? Do I need to purchase RAID card from MSI? Which? How? And where do I get if I need it?
Please help.
Thank you.

Quote from: john_the_lizard on 17-August-13, 05:46:07
This what MSI is saying "MSI Tech. 08/16/2013 After verification, since you did not purchase the SuperRAID model (SuperRAID is an option) the SuperRAID card is not available with this unit. Only models that came with RAID setup contains SuperRAID card. However, you can still do SuperRAID using 2x 2.5" SSD. Let us know if you have any questions, thank you. "
What does this mean? Really?
According to their web site from my model profile " Super RAID with 2 SSD RAID0 gives you over 800MB/s storage speed!!
The first Super RAID design—one notebook with two SSD mSATA RAID0 units, is yet another world first courtesy of MSI. Two mSATA SSDs and one HDD can be installed in the same laptop without the need to expand the size of the laptop, increasing read, write, and saving speeds.
*Please contact your local dealer for final sku"
Is this a lie?
Please help
It most likely is.
I don't believe that the GT70 0NC and GT70 0NE motherboards are different.
I wish I could take my laptop apart right now and show you, but basically, the SuperRaid and the normal SATA adapter plug into a connector on the motherboard. This connector actually has support for 2 x SATA disks. If you use the SuperRaid, you can use both SATA channels. If you use the normal SATA adapter, you only utilize 1 of the SATA channels (and the other is unused, and cannot be used). Since both of these adapters have the same plug going into the motherboard, one can assume that EVERY GT70 laptop has support for the SuperRaid ADAPTER, just not every laptop comes with the superraid adapter (such as your laptop).
Most likely, you'll have to see if you can search online and find someone selling the GT70 SuperRaid adapter, and buy that. Maybe talk to some resellers, usually they will sell you the parts as well.

Yet another question about super raid - GS70

Yes, another question about Super Raid...I recently picked up the cheapest model of the GS70 on newegg which comes with 1 mSata SSD...just a mediocre one if I remember reading correctly. I'm interested in using MSI's Super Raid once my warranty is over with and have been reading a couple posts here:
1. Walk through of how to reinstall OS
--> https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=167198.msg1224063#msg1224063
2. I'll need a Super Raid card with links to get some, for about $100 each
--> https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=171722.msg1252847#msg1252847
3. I can't get Super Raid unless it originally came with it?
--> https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=171185.msg1249640#msg1249640
So what's the bottom line? Would I still be able to enable super raid in the future or am I SOL since it didn't come with it originally?
thanks!

The GT70 CAN come with an adapter that has 2 (on the older, GT70 0NX models) or 3 (on newer GT70 20X models) sockets for mSATA drives. It's an optional part, that takes place of the primary SATA drive in the notebook, and physically has a different part that connects to the motherboard. If it doesn't come with the SuperRaid adapter, then it just has support for a single 2.5" SATA drive.
The GS70 on the otherhand, has this built into the motherboard and there is no swapping it out for a normal 2.5" SATA drive. You can only use mSATA drives (on those ports). The GS70 is meant to be an ultrabook, and therefore does not have the same ability as the GT70 to house up to 2 full size 2.5" SATA drives.
That's really the main difference here. Without physically seeing a GT70 to see how the SuperRaid adapter works, it's slightly difficult to explain.
But in the end, I wouldn't worry about the SuperRaid....The GS70 should have support for Intel Raid Management Engine, in which case that's all you really need.

Where can I buy the mSATA adapter for GT70?

I have a GT70 0NC-494 which came with only a 750GB hard drive. I bought a SATA 3 SSD and i'm having lots of issues with it (like underspeed and unstability), so I want to install a super-raid adapter instead of a single SSD.
thanks a lot

Quote from: darkhawk on 13-December-13, 10:08:43
Best thing I can suggest without Googling your problem for you....
Have you updated the firmware at all on the drive? Or ensured that the drive has the latest firmware on it?
http://ocz.com/consumer/download/firmware
All drivers and firmwares are last versions. I've tried everything i found on google, at the beginning i had almost SATA 3 speeds (400~500 MB/s) but very unstable, then i updated some intel drivers and it get a bit more stable but with SATA 2 speeds. I really don't know what else to do.

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I plan to upgrade my GX70
but I have some confusion.
If I install 2 64GB mSATA and run with Super RAID
does the total storage I have is 128GB?
besides, does 128GB enough for system?

Quote from: boonboonfang;100077
I plan to upgrade my GX70
but I have some confusion.
If I install 2 64GB mSATA and run with Super RAID
does the total storage I have is 128GB?
besides, does 128GB enough for system?
just curious about the model you are having right now.....:confused:
after checking on official website for GX models, there seems hard to find description regarding to super raid feature support.

Super Raid Storage, is not enough!!

Hi guys, I have bought a GS70 a couple of weeks ago... for someone coming from Desktop PC, the Performance has been great and the Raid0 is way faster than what i were expecting....
But Super Raid with 256 GB is not enough for a heavy gamer like myself :(, with a couple of games installed, suddenly i dont have enough space for more games... and i have already moved all my multimedia files to the D drive, but still not enough space for my AC IV..... AND i have it now on my hands....
have anybody tried to upgrade the Super Raid to 512GB???
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1) Give up warranty: 2 years warranty is a lot of time... but if you are as crazy for details as i am... you can just give it up and enjoy of the 512 GB super raid :cool:
2) Open Back Cover: Several screw to remove.... but if you have experience open any PC (no matter desktop or notebook) should be a piece of cake.
Inside quality is very very good... you can also clean the CPU and GPU fan to extend its useful life.
3) Remove mSata *2
4) Put the UPGRADE in....
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Super RAID 3 performance

Super RAID 3 is MSI’s name for a 4-SSD RAID 0 solution used in the GT72. You may know that traditional mechanical hard drives are going out of fashion like… Uhh, I don’t know fashion, but their only upsides have been storage density as well as price. Until very recently, that is, now SSDs have actually surpassed hard drives in storage density on 2.5” drives. Also, SSD controller manufacturer Phison, claims that SSDs will basically replace traditional hard drives in notebooks as soon as 2015 or 2016. The future, therefore is SSDs.
While we have absolutely no doubt that our Super RAID solution is the ultimate, we want to demonstrate to you exactly how massive the gap is. With the help of benchmarks, obviously, and an unfair one at that. What we did, was find a GE40 with a relic of a mechanical hard drive in it. A 7200 RPM one, so not the slowest we could find – and compared it to the GT72 Dragon Edition and its Super RAID 3 solution of 4 256GB SSDs in Crystal Diskmark. Extreme differences? You bet.
First up the HDD:
A typical hard drive result – easily surpassed by even USB 3.0 memory nowadays. Peaks of just over 60MB in sequential read and nearly grinding to a standstill in the 4K tests.
Super RAID 3 though – it monsters the HDD (and, to be fair, everything else on the market). Not surprisingly, exactly, but with 1.5GB/s (not Gb, GB, Gigabyte) sequential read speed it is what you call fast. Windows 8 loads quickly with one SSD, but with four in RAID0, you’re barely given time to blink.
Best of all, with a 4x256GB SSD, there’s plenty of room for your games on the RAID array, meaning you can always be the first onto the battlefield in games, as your maps will load so much faster than the opposition’s.

Thank you for providing test results! It's very good to see real numbers. GT72 with Super RAID 3 is unbelievable fast.

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Hello,
I recently bought GT70 Dragon Edition (2202). It includes 128 GB mSATA SSD (SK Hynix)I want to add 2 more mSATA (maybe Samsung Evo (2x128GB). So my questions are:
Can I make super raid with 1 Hynix ssd and 2 Samsung or I have to buy 3 from same type (this will be lame, it will not make sense of having 128GB already)
How to copy my Windows from the Hynix sata to the new Super Raid 2.
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GT70 question (Super Raid card)

Hello All!
Quick question, I'm interested in the new GT70 2PE-1069NL (1x 128GB msata SSD) or the GT70 2PE-1063NL (2x 128GB msata SSD).
Now, I'm wondering if the 1069 already features a Super RAID 2 expansion bay, so I can add my own msata SSD if I want to.
The difference between the two is €200,- and I'm wondering if it's worth the RAID 0 setup and the 4GB RAM extra. The 1063 also features a Blu ray player, but I won't use that.
Also, what msata SSD is in the 1069 and 1063?
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Quote from: Ragaroah on 02-April-14, 05:26:24
Hello All!
Quick question, I'm interested in the new GT70 2PE-1069NL (1x 128GB msata SSD) or the GT70 2PE-1063NL (2x 128GB msata SSD).
Now, I'm wondering if the 1069 already features a Super RAID 2 expansion bay, so I can add my own msata SSD if I want to.
The difference between the two is €200,- and I'm wondering if it's worth the RAID 0 setup and the 4GB RAM extra. The 1063 also features a Blu ray player, but I won't use that.
Also, what msata SSD is in the 1069 and 1063?
Thanks in advance!
Most likely they BOTH have the mSATA SuperRaid2 card.
For the €200, I would go for it. 4 GB more RAM, another 128 GB SSD, and a blue ray player to me makes it worth it.
No idea regarding what SSD or chipset it uses. It can vary from notebook to notebook since they will (most likely, I don't know this for sure...just guessing) probably buy whatever they can get for the cheapest.
Most likely it will be a SF2281 based card though. Atleast, that's my guess.

K8T NEO - MSI/Via Raid Tool useless

I am one of those unfortunate people who bought a K8T Neo FSR Motherboard (Mine has been replaced 3 times after failing totally but whose counting?). I am now having serious problems with my fourth version of this motherboard or at least I think I am. I am not sure!
Let me explain:
My SATA HDD Disk drives keep failing - or more correctly - I am getting messages from Windows Error Reporting that tells me there are disk problems. The exact error messages are reproduced below:
Event Type:   Error
Event Source:   viamraid
Event Category:   None
Event ID:     9
Date:      31/08/2006
Time:      8:32:41 PM
User:      N/A
Computer:   MASTER
Description: The device, \Device\Scsi\viamraid1, did not respond within the timeout period.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 0f 00 10 00 01 00 6a 00 ......j.
0008: 00 00 00 00 09 00 04 c0 .......À
0010: 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0018: 5b 09 00 00 00 00 00 00 [.......
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0028: 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 ........
0030: 00 00 00 00 07 00 00 00 ........
This is immediately followed by the following message:
Event Type:   Warning
Event Source:   Disk
Event Category:   None
Event ID:     51
Date:      31/08/2006
Time:      8:32:41 PM
User:      N/A
Computer:   MASTER
Description: An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk2\D during a paging operation.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 04 00 68 00 01 00 b6 00 ..h...¶.
0008: 00 00 00 00 33 00 04 80 ....3..
0010: 2d 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 -.......
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0028: 57 87 00 00 00 00 00 00 W......
0030: ff ff ff ff 03 00 00 00 ÿÿÿÿ....
0038: 40 00 00 44 00 00 02 00 @..D....
0040: ff 20 0a 12 88 02 20 40 ÿ ... @
0048: 00 00 01 00 0a 00 00 00 ........
0050: 00 00 00 00 00 06 6c 84 ......l
0058: 00 00 00 00 60 36 62 86 ....`6b
0060: 00 00 00 00 f7 04 81 05 ....÷..
0068: 2a 00 05 81 04 f7 00 00 *...÷..
0070: 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .......
0078: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0080: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0088: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
I started getting these messages from a brand new SATA HDD which I immediately replaced. All went well for a week or so and then I started getting the exact same error messages all over again!
Were both HDD's really defective? I am beginning to wonder!
The practical implication of the above errors is that my computer freezes totally - I can't do anything at all - no mouse - no keyboard - no saving work - nothing! When I reboot and run Scandisk /F /R I sometimes get some disk surface errors but mostly I don't.
To my way of thinking there are two possibilities:
(1) Both these disk drives have genuine technical problems (ie such as surface errors)
(2) The MSI/Via SATA disk controllers on the motherboard are faulty and this is causing disk errors or possibly even disk crashes (is this even possible? I don't know!)
After the bad run that I have already had with K8T NEO motherboards please forgive me for being suspicious that my HDD problems really could result from a faulty SATA/HDD/Controller rather than genuine disk errors.
To help resolve the issue I downloaded and installed MSI's latest SATA HDD disk drivers which includes the VIA RAID TOOL. The raid tool includes an option to "check the status of controllers and disk drives" and a system "log" which is supposed to record all error conditions/events that occur on devices it controls.
The main problem here is that *IT DOESN'T WORK* !!!
Just a short wile ago my system started acting strangely and then it froze again (third time this hour). I opened the MSI/VIA Raid Tool from the System Tray and checked the logs - There was nothing in them at all - and yet in Windows Error Reporting there were 5 distinct error conditions reported. Obviously the MSI/VIA Raid Tool doesn't work too well.
I am at a loss as to what to do next. Has anybody out there had similar problems?
What steps should I take to resolve these issues?
Any comments/suggestions?

Not sure how a scope can let you know if you are supplying enough amps. Ripple and noise are basically non issues as the voltages are further regulated on the MB before they get to the componant level.
Almost everything is now regulated from the 12v supply unlike past systems were. As Watts do not tell how much 12v is being supplied by the PSU it is a non starter when you desribe your PSU. You can have a PSU that is 500w and only provides 8a on the 12v rail. That will not even allow an A64 system to startup. As is said over and over again in the forum don't assume that a 500w PSU will ruin your Rig. 24 or more amps on the 12v rail is recommended for a small to mid size build now days. More may be needed as you add parts to your system.
As this is not a common problem on that board, and I should know as I built a fairly large rig from one... We need to have complete specs. Did you know that a high end ATi Vid Card can use more juice than many CPU's you can use on that board? See why this is a concern that we get all the specs?
Like Hans said though I won't bother asking again either. Without some idea what we are looking at all we are doing is looking into a crystal ball. We would like to see if we can help but working with a crystal ball isn't in the tech manual.

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