Disable Gen8 B120i raid controller

[GeorgeGs]

Hi everyone,

I have a gen8 microserver with only one hard drive running hp custom esxi 6.5 on it. The default raid setup is 0 when one drive is in use, my question is, if I disable the raid controller in bios would that affect my current hard drive? I know that older controllers used to write some data on disks. I just want to know if I would be able to boot my esxi normally after disabling the raid and using Sata AHCI.

Thank you

[krasinka1409]

Hello, as your drive is already configured as RAID (0), the AHCI Mode will not e able to detect a RAID volume. So, I thing, that the ESXI will not boot up. Nevertheless you can try and see if it boots. If not, you an still set the controller back to RAID. 

[GeorgeGs]

So its safe to disable raid and re-enable it?
That wont cause any issues to my drive?

Thank yoy
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Kind Regards,

George Glikis