Crucial MX100, M500, etc. not wanting to mirror in Windows 7

[BrunoPuntzJones]

Have thrown several SSDs at this for mild redundancy but not having any luck. When trying to mirror I get the error message"

[q]All disks holding extents for a given volume must have the same sector size[/q]

I do a disk info and get "not supported" for the "Bytes per physical sector" result.

Is this common to SSDs? This is a Windows 7 64bit install. Different drives from different manufacturers produce the same results. The KB regarding the error mentions making sure everything is up to date (it is, but no specific drivers available for the drives) and to check a registry entry (which is fine).

Any ideas?

 

[Cerb]

So you mean you're trying to make a Microsoft RAID 1? Are the drives identical? IE, 2xMX100, 2xM500? Finally, do they have any partitions on them? If so, are they aligned identically?

Also, check out yushir's post here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com...ctor-size-and-the-sector?forum=winserverfiles

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

So you mean you're trying to make a Microsoft RAID 1? Are the drives identical? IE, 2xMX100, 2xM500? Finally, do they have any partitions on them? If so, are they aligned identically?

Also, check out yushir's post here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com...ctor-size-and-the-sector?forum=winserverfiles

I had tried identical drives, dissimilar drives, had them correctly aligned, etc.

I took two brand new, still sealed M500s and finally got it to work. No idea what the trick was or why this group all of a sudden took, but it did.

More aggravating than i had hoped but at least it's working now.

Thanks for the help!