I've made an oopsie - SSD Raid

Juantjie

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So I installed windows on to my SSD raid 0 setup. Only the other day do I think to myself, "did I do a firmware upgrade?" "No, you didn't, you fool".

So I'm thinking it's pretty important I take measures to do an upgrade, right? How would I go about backing up a raid volume? Would it still work after the firmware update? And how would I even do that with a raid volume?

Between a hard place and rock bottom right now.
 
You put windows on a raid 0?

I would never do that.

Anyway, if i understand it you need to be in windows to do a firmware update? ( i do for my ADATA SSD)

so...
Wipe them both...
Install windows on one
upgrade fw on other
then do the same again.

once done reinstall on raid 0.

if you do upgrade the FW in Dos or summit then just upgrade the FW...? or will it erase your data?

if it will erase ur data do a Ghost copy of your windows drive to a backup cheap drive... Then upgrade Raid fw then copy it back over.

I think PerfectDisk has an option to copy Boot drives

EDIT:
because Raid 0 virtually makes 2 drives into one you can defo use a Ghosting software to place your windows install on a cheap 60gb hdd... then when done you can do the same back to the Upgraded Raid.
 
I only run RAID0 now.

The RAID should be fine as long as you enable RAID in the bios as soon as possible. The RAID bios will still see the RAID info on the drives and should rebuild it automatically, as if nothing had happened.

Done this a few times with bios updates, and the data survives.
 
oopsie lol

I got it all wrong, not the first time and certainly not the last. I assume updating the firmware on the drives will wipe the mbr then? Didn't with mine.
 
Thanks for the advice guys. Seeing as it's a pretty fresh install, I'll try the firmware upgrade.

Side thought, just in case something goes wrong, is there any difference with raid 0 and a single drive in boot times / application load times? Force 3 btw.

Again, thanks :)
 
Juantjie said:
is there any difference with raid 0 and a single drive in boot times / application load times? Force 3 btw.

Again, thanks :)
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Theoretically? Yes.
Practically? No.

I personally believe RAIDing SSDs is a waste of time.

RAID HDDs for redundancy and/or speed benefits. But SSDs? Leave them as single drives.
 
Sin_Chase said:
Theoretically? Yes.
Practically? No.

I personally believe RAIDing SSDs is a waste of time.

RAID HDDs for redundancy and/or speed benefits. But SSDs? Leave them as single drives.
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In that case, I do believe I have wasted mine.

Still, it was fun :P
 
Juantjie said:
In that case, I do believe I have wasted mine.

Still, it was fun :P
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I run my M4's in RAID 0 its no faster really than a standard SSD for perforance appart from benchmarks and the Epeen.

TBH it actually boost slower because of this as it has to start the RAID drivers first then reboot.

You are fine to update the firmware on your SSD's i did mine last week with the new crucial firmware.

I did it at the bios level though it just updates 1 then the other and didnt lose anything and all worked perfectly fine after.
 
As Passey said I run my M4's in RAID 0.

I have upgraded the firmware on these several times now and I have never lost any data.

Switch from RAID to AHCI or IDE and flash both drives. When you're done switch back to RAID. Done :)
 
Oh and there's nothing wrong with slapping a couple of SSD's in RAID 0. Maybe before TRIM was enabled it wasn't such a good idea but now you've no excuse. You've got nothing to lose.

I'd only RAID HDD's in RAID 1. And If I was doing that I'd probably use RST and a partition on my SSD as a cache.
 
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