Hello all!
In the US Army, our latest field tough laptops are the Latitude E6430ATGs. Like the old E6410ATGs, the BIOS Intel Option Rom for RAID configuration only allows RAID1. It will not allow anything else. Our intent is to enable RAID0 for performance, but no matter how much research we do, there seems to be no answer. We are using a hard drive in the regular hard drive slot with a caddy adapter and hard drive in the module bay slot. We press ctrl+I to enter the Intel Option ROM configuration utility to create a RAID array. It definitely recognizes both drives, but only shows RAID1 as an option. The controller definitely supports both RAID 0 and 1, so that's not the issue.
This seems to be characteristic with Dell Latitude laptops. Why did Dell purposefully disable the RAID0 option? If any Dell engineering folks are reading this, we'd definitely like to have RAID0 as an option to create an array. We can do it with our HP Elitebook 8560p laptops and our Optiplex 980 desktops easily because the option shows up and is not restricted.
Any suggestions?