Raid0 error help

Nick1881 · 24 Apr 2009 at 10:25

I have 2 Samsung 64Gb SSD's in raid 0, last time I rebuilt my system into a new case one of the drives had a error next to it on the raid screen, in the end I deleted and rebuilt the array then did a fresh install.

Last night while doing some overclocking I had a BSOD which took a rather long time to do the memory dump, when I restarted I had an error showing next to 1 of the drives again but left it to boot anyway, it all booted into windows fine but then the raid software came up and said I should back-up my data.

Should I be worried? Is there anyway to fix it without losing my data and having to re-install again?

Thanks

britboy4321 · 24 Apr 2009 at 15:10

If anything ever told me to back up my data, and I cared about the data, I think I'd take it's advice!

Do you get a red exclamation mark down the bottom right of the screen? Does double clicking it come up with the disk manager with an option to 'Mark as Normal'?

Nick1881 · 24 Apr 2009 at 15:37

Its only my OS drive, all important stuff is on my 1.5TB.

Yes there was the option to mark as normal which I did hoping it would go away. Will have a look see if it still complains when I get home from work in about 30 mins.

britboy4321 · 24 Apr 2009 at 15:42

mr_x_plosion said:
Its only my OS drive, all important stuff is on my 1.5TB.

Yes there was the option to mark as normal which I did hoping it would go away. Will have a look see if it still complains when I get home from work in about 30 mins.

'Mark as normal' makes it temporarily go away -- in my case -- for a few days.

I found my personal permanent fix by installing a normal non-raid, SATA hard disk on the SATA connection above the RAID SATA connections on the motherboard. It makes no logical sense to me, but I just shoved a cruddy old 60 quid 500gb Samsung in my rig .. and for some reason never had raid issues again once the hard disk controller also had a 'normal' hard disk to look at!!

As previously said .. my solution makes no logical sense -- but it worked for me!

Nick1881 · 24 Apr 2009 at 16:15

The error no longer shows on the raid screen during boot, maybe just a blip?

Lets hope it stays working.

Thanks for your help.

gary996 · 24 Apr 2009 at 20:45

mr x how you finding the Samsungs? Just seen the price for the 64gig ones and they are cheaper than the Vertex

Nick1881 · 25 Apr 2009 at 09:57

Well I paid £200 for my 2 and I don't think you will get a single 120Gb drive as fast for the same money, at £300 for 2 its harder to call.