Raid 0 Keeps Breaking on Cold Boot! Help?

mkohman

mkohman

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Hey All,

I have 2 x Kingston SSDNow 40 GB running on Raid0 at 80GB as OS with Win 7 64bit...

Recently I updated my bios to F10 (Gigabyte EX58 UD5) and I reinstalled my windows with all my apps and programs and then made an image with Acronis 2010 then I used HDDERASE 3.3 to clean wipe both ssd drives and then re created my Raid0 and restored the image (with the OS and apps) with Acronis. I did this as the Raid0 does not support trimming and when imaging the OS on to the Raid 0 Configuration apparantly it writes to 1 block as apposed to scattering it all over the place ...

However my 1 problem is I have noticed that my Raid0 is often breaking on cold boots and I am having to re recover my os and apps with Acronis 2010. This is sooooo annoying.

When installing windows originally before the imaging with Acronis I am doing this whilst my bios in overclocked settings could this be the reason? Shall I re install with stock bios settings or doesn't this really matter?

Also I have been thinking of just selling these 2 x Kingston SSD 40GB each as they are still Brand new and maybe I should get intel's latest x-25 G2 drive which does already support trimming and run it non raid?

Please can I have some advise and support on this or if there is a way to prevent the Raid0 from breaking on cold boots?

Thanks all :)
 
Last night I thought I would give it a final go .. I erased both SSD's with the HDDErase 3.3 option 2 (Enhanced Secure Erase) and it may have possibly done the trick as now when I raid the drives in Raid 0 .. I have no problems at all.. DavyBoy you may want to also try this.. My Raid0 never once failed with these drives before I actually used HDDErase 3.3 with option 1 "secure format" .. now that I have done option 2 "Enhanced Secure Format" things are back to normal I strongley believe this had something to do with it as my Raid0 is fine on cold boots and restarts and hasn't broken since I installed windows last night :) Touch wood LOL
 
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