Help Raid and SSD gone?

powdaman

powdaman

powdaman

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Using my computer this morning without issues. All of a sudden it completely crashes. I turned it off and on again and it says that one of the disks is no longer part of the RAID? I have deleted and recreated the RAID successfully and I cant see any errors (Gigabyte motherboard states the RAID has been created successfully and is running normal) but nothing can see it and windows doesnt boot. when putting the Windows disk and trying to run repair or reinstall it cannot see any drives.

Tried access both drives without RAID but windows doesnt see either of them? WTF???

HELP!!!
 
I know it was a last resort. But even when trying to do fresh installation it doesn't see either drive (or both in raid). What I dont understand is that the gigabyte raid controller see's them but nothing else can? Duff ssd? Duff motherboard? I'm stumped. Found an old sat a drive which is installing at moment (window 7). Once up I'll see if windows can access them.... Guess it's rma time, bought whole system from over clockers but not looking forward to life without puter!!!
 
You are correct BIOS is set to RAID. and the drives are OCZ summit drives, after perusing website I could not find any drivers....

Instructions state that is should just "see" them?
 
FYI now in Windows 7 again on my spare SATA and I cannot see them at all in Disk Management... I'll play around with BIOS again but I'm thinking this is Mobo failure of sorts as I doubt both SSD's would fail simultaneously??
 
Ok. so lets just say that the RAID failed and I am able to get the array working again (be it with complete loss of data). Is this common with SSD's? should I stay away from RAID 0 (is it normal to only get just under a year out of it prior to RAID 0 failing?). or is it more to the point that either SSD or Mobo needs RMA'ing?

(Raid driver for Gigabyte motherboard found and so I can see RAID 0 SSD's again - question definately stands as above)...
 
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Well windows is now successfully installing on the RAID array that failed. Surely if an SSD fails it stops working completely? I'm very confused. I know what you are saying about installing to SSD separately but surely if i can installed to a RAID 0 setup then nothing has actually terminally failed?

I guess I'll phone overclockers support on monday for more technical assistance and advice on what could have happend...
 
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