> How is this harder than the current procedure which requires users to sideload custom RAID drivers from USB that support the RAID at install time?
It's not harder: It degrades the overall experience while using the laptop (battery, temperature, performance).
> I can imagine the support calls coming from THAT.
> Oh, and this is the Windows experience that is affected.
True, but I'm sure they plan on make money out of these calls. People will be more inclined to pay when "they" screwed up Windows than because "this piece of crap doesn't work well, even with Windows freshly installed".
Again, this is a guess of Lenovo's thinking.
> When I think of risk associated with setting a BIOS to AHCI mode? I don't think of nuclear explosions...
"It's not harder: It degrades the overall experience while using the laptop (battery, temperature, performance)."
Except these are baseless claims that haven't been supported by any data yet; in fact, one user that posted on the Lenovo Community forums compared the "performance" of single-drive RAID (oxymoron) vs. AHCI for NVMe SSDs, and it's more or less the same.
"I mean flashing a non-supported BIOS :)"
Right, so do I -- currently, users have been attaching DIY chip clips and flashing a user-modded hacked BIOS themselves (much like modding Playstation game consoles to break the region locking back in the 90s).
Wouldn't it be better for these users to flash a Lenovo-supported BIOS instead?
I guess that's what factors into your "bottom line" calculations -- the overhead of uploading a 30 second fix from engineering.
EDIT: I really should have realized I have been getting trolled a bit sooner LOL
It's not harder: It degrades the overall experience while using the laptop (battery, temperature, performance).
> I can imagine the support calls coming from THAT. > Oh, and this is the Windows experience that is affected.
True, but I'm sure they plan on make money out of these calls. People will be more inclined to pay when "they" screwed up Windows than because "this piece of crap doesn't work well, even with Windows freshly installed".
Again, this is a guess of Lenovo's thinking.
> When I think of risk associated with setting a BIOS to AHCI mode? I don't think of nuclear explosions...
I mean flashing a non-supported BIOS :)