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Damn I had an annoying time setting up my PCI hyper card.
1) the screws to keep it in place the SSD were some weird hex pattern that I didn't have the right tools for so I had to buy different screws of amazon. They were still a total bitch to install because they just aren't long enough after putting the SSDs on the thermal paste in the hyper card. And unless you have tiny hands it's really fricking hard.... much harder than it should be.
2) changing the bios to recognize the two SSDs instead of just one was not fun. BIOS is just not user friendly and in plain enough language. Had to hunt down youtube videos and none had my version of the BIOS but by sheer luck found one close enough that got me to the right place.
Must say, good feeling when all done and new drives all formatted. I have 5 internal m.2 SSDs now which is a bit overkill but at least it helps keep things clean and organized and easy to back up when I have to.
What board do you have? And does the hyper card raid the 2 cards together to form 1 storage pool, or can you see each card individually?
Bifurcation is cool, but it can be a bitch.