SSD RAID Issue?

kemistry · 20 Sep 2013 at 12:55

Hi, for a while now ive had a crucial c300 and m4 (64gb) in RAID working fine, however yesterday I experienced several crashes of windows explorer leading to BSOD's. The PC was overclocked, however i have since run it at stock and the same issue seems to be occurring. Windows seems to slow to a halt before the crash. On reboot the PC will go straight into the BIOS. Temps are fine, and all programs seem to say both SSD's and the RAID are fine. After exiting the BIOS the PC will boot normally. Is one of the SSDs on its way out? Im yet to format as I wanted to do it as a last resort.

PC Specs

2600k (Was at 4.2, now at stock)
ASRock Z68 Extreme4
8gb Kingston HyperX
1x C300, 1x M4
GTX 570
Corsair 520 psu

wazza300 · 20 Sep 2013 at 13:25

use ssdlife on the m4 to see howmany hours use it has and what fw version

there's a common 5400 hour bug that causes freezing/crashes and is fixed by flashing to the latest firmware

kemistry · 20 Sep 2013 at 13:26

I cant seem to use SSD Life on either as they are in RAID, any way around this?

kemistry · 20 Sep 2013 at 13:28

Both SSD's are on the firmware they came with. Definite advice to change then!

wazza300 · 20 Sep 2013 at 13:29

not sure with raid,but deffo flash the m4 to latest fw then see how it performs

ohh you can look in the intel rapid storage driver console to see the m4's fw

mine's different ssd but should show all drives fw

kemistry · 20 Sep 2013 at 13:46

Yeah both are on 002, i shall update them. Cheers!

wazza300 · 20 Sep 2013 at 13:46

post back with results