I've made an oopsie - SSD Raid

Juantjie · 22 Jan 2013 at 13:19

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.

Juantjie · 23 Jan 2013 at 02:01

Diagro said:
Is he asking about FW updates to the SSD's or A BIOS Update.

TWO entirely different things

Just a firmware update, BIOS up to date.

Juantjie · 23 Jan 2013 at 02:04

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 · 23 Jan 2013 at 02:15

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.

In that case, I do believe I have wasted mine.

Still, it was fun