Does anyone know if the new HP Omen 2020 with Oled 4K panel supports dual NVMe RAID 0 and how to?

[Macazian]

Hello,

I have a new HP OMEN 4K OLED with RTX 2070 Super Max-q model 15-EK0023DX.

It comes with a single Samsung 1TB PM981a M.2 SSD and another empty NVME slot.

I could not find any documentation on HP support for this and I have an ongoing case # with their support team.

Is there RAID capabilities for NVMe on this MB and how to set it up as I want have a single C: drive partition with lots of space, by purchasing the same exact model 1TB drive to RAID-0 will save me some money instead of a 2TB NVMe drive by itself and be leftover with another  1TB PM981a for a secondary partition 😧 which is only OEM part (Prefer not to do it this way).

There is no documentation anywhere except a generic bios simulator guide with just basic screenshots of bios menu from HP and it is not in the user manual or service manual. I looked into the bios for a RAID menu, UI option or standard RAID option setting but it is not there. The system controller does show the BIOS  has the a sub menu called "UEFI HII Configuration" which shows a clickable option called "Intel Rapid Storage Technology". When you click on this it shows "Intel RST 17.8.0.4507 RAID Driver" with "NO DISKS CONNECTED TO SYSTEM".

I wonder if this option will open up more if I connect another NVME drive to the empty secondary slot?

[banhien]

@Macazian 

Its specs

    https://support.hp.com/au-en/document/c06656947

It has

    15.6" diagonal 4K UHD, UWVA, BrightView, anti-reflection, micro-edge, AMOLED, edge-to-edge glass, 400 nits, 100% DCI-P3 (3840 x 2160) screen

Which is the top of the series which has following options

1. Full high definition (FHD) (1920 × 1080), antiglare, WLED, flat (3.2 mm), 45% NTSC, eDP 1.2, 250 nits
2. FHD, antiglare, WLED, flat (3.2 mm), 45% NTSC, eDP 1.3 + PSR, 250 nits, 144 Hz
3. FHD, antiglare, WLED, ultraslim (2.6 mm), 72% NTSC, eDP 1.2, 300 nits
4. FHD, antiglare, WLED, ultraslim (2.6 mm), 72% NTSC, eDP 1.4 + PSR, 300 nits, 144 Hz
5. FHD, antiglare, WLED, ultraslim (2.6 mm), 100% sRGB, eDP 1.4 + PSR2, 300 nits, 300 Hz
6. Ultra high definition (UHD) (3840 × 2160), antiglare, LED, ultraslim (2.6 mm), 100% sRGB, eDP 1.4 + PSR2, 400 nits, 120 Hz
7. UHD, BrightView, AMOLED, ultraslim, 100% DCI-P3, eDP + PSR, 400 nits, 120 Hz

The series supports pre-installed RAID0 with Intel M.2 512GB (with Optane) and other 512GB M.2 NVMe SSD that means you have few options including disable RAID 0

Note: Disable RAID 0 may loosing data therefore it is much better to do from the beginning.

Manual

               http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c06638089.pdf

>>>> When you click on this it shows "Intel RST 17.8.0.4507 RAID Driver" with "NO DISKS CONNECTED TO SYSTEM".

Your machine only has 1 TB PCIe® NVMe™ M.2 SSD, no RAID .

1. If you wish to have a lot of space. Adding 1TB or 2TB (single side) M.2 NVMe SSD to the second lot is the way to go.
2. If you wish to use RAID, add 1TB more to slot 2 and configure RAID

Regards.

[Macazian]

Wonderful, Banhien,

Thanks! Yeah I figured it would need a secondary M.2 SSD to detect to be able to set up raid in this sub menu.

I already backed up the HP OEM Win10 home image with the UWP MSFT Store HP Cloud image backup app to a 32GB USB flash drive for the recovery image. And tested a clean install with Win10 Enterprise and drivers and have all device manager drivers working fine on a clean Win10 Enterprise install with no problems there with reformatting and imaging anew.

On a second question, this laptop RAM is rated @ 2933Mhz on the MB. I noticed HP only QVLs up to 32GB for this MB. I wonder if you would know if this MB would actually address 64GBs 2933Mhz Non-ECC sodimms. There are not a lot of memory chip vendors that make this speed and I know the laptop will compensate on timing and latency if I try 3200Mhz. (It comes with Samsung 16Gbs 3200MHZ BTW). I only know of Kingston (Impact DDR4 sodimms) and Hynix as known 2933Mhz so dimm vendors on this spec. Just wondering if you know off hand if it'll work or may have been tested off hand as HP non QVL. Reading all material, I wish HP would spec what is maximum memory on MB allotment and not maximum QVLed memory that is tested to work which are two different things.

-Hai

[Macazian]

Hi BanHien,

So I installed another PM981A on second slot same make/model. HP "ESC" post option to check PC MGMT has option that shows the HDD lists 2x Samsung PM981A Drives and I can see 2 separate drives in Windows 10 Disk MGMT as C: and 😧 after formatting second drive and is usable. 

It is still listing "No DISKS Detected" in the Bios under UEFI HII Configuration for the Intel RST Driver 17.8.0.4507 within Bios FW. The options cannot move any further.

Also cannot install clean OS on single RAID 0 as WIndows 10 custom clean install only can see 2x Samsung SSDs as separate drives.

Even when using the latest IRST Intel Dos driver load from Intel's chipset website on clean OS driver install for IRST Chipset drivers within Custom OS menu of partitioning clean install.

I've even updated the BIOs from F.01 to F.05 latest, no go.

Any help or advisement on this please?

Can you please kindly advise how to Configure a RAID 0 within BIOs?