OCZ Vertex4 raid failed?

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Yesterday I shut down my win7 PC normally and tonight I tried to start the PC and I just get the ASUS logo on screen at startup from BIOS. I have had no problems for two years now. Not single blue screen or anything. And now this.

There is no response to keyboard. I've managed to get in BIOS with CMOS reset. I see my SSD's there. After setting up BIOS I'm stuck with logo on screen ( and text "press del to enter...")

When I disconnect one SSD I am able to get in raid configuration with ctrl+i. There is nothing to do when one of two drives is disconnected. Connected SSD shows green status but also shows that array is broken (of course). This is the case with both drives when connected alone.

I even managed to get PC to boot from Win7 DVD when both drives were connected. Not raid nor either of the drives were identified at repair tool. There was actually nothing in repair tool to help with this.
I arranged teh boot sequence so that DVD is first. If I just wait through "press any key to boot from DVD" I'll get "no operating system".

Is there something I could try to do before ditching both of these drives (i don't know which one is broken). Or do I just have to accept the fact that SSD can die like this. Without SMART tests giving anything in advance.

I have 2 OCZ Vertex4 128GB SSD in RAID0 (about 2 years old)
Asus P8Z77-V Pro
Intel i7 3770k
16GB RAM
 
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Vertex 4s are still covered under warranty by Toshiba. They came with a 3 year warranty. You should be able to get a replacement, but there are several things you'll need to do first.

1. disconnect both drives and install Windows onto another drive. If you already have an alternate system, then ignore this step and use that one.
2. connect each drive one at a time and analyze them using the OCZ toolbox program. It will tell you if anything is bad. You can download it here: http://ocz.com/consumer/download/firmware
3a. if nothing is bad, use the toolbox to wipe the drives to start over. You've lost everything anyway. If the hardware isn't bad, then the data is corrupted.
3b. if you do find something bad, save all the...
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This is why you don't run SSDs in RAID-0. No TRIM support it will damage the drives.
At this point your data is probably lost. Try writing data to each drive normally and see if you can establish which one is damaged. You may be lucky enough to be able to RMA one of the drives and get it repaired. Then go get yourself a drive of the capacity you actually want. Run it in single drive mode and be happy with the speed.
FYI: I have had 2 Corsair Force 2 drives fail attempting this very setup.
 
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Vertex 4s are still covered under warranty by Toshiba. They came with a 3 year warranty. You should be able to get a replacement, but there are several things you'll need to do first.

1. disconnect both drives and install Windows onto another drive. If you already have an alternate system, then ignore this step and use that one.
2. connect each drive one at a time and analyze them using the OCZ toolbox program. It will tell you if anything is bad. You can download it here: http://ocz.com/consumer/download/firmware
3a. if nothing is bad, use the toolbox to wipe the drives to start over. You've lost everything anyway. If the hardware isn't bad, then the data is corrupted.
3b. if you do find something bad, save all the information you can from it to give to Toshiba's support. Make sure to get your purchase information as well.

Good luck.
 
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Thank you for your ideas. New SSD is arriving and new installation of Win7 is coming up next.
 
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PC is now up and running. Windows 7 installed on 250GB Samsung 840 Evo.

Those OCZ drives confuses me.. I can see them in windows as two separate drives. first is sized 99,99Mb and the other is 238Gb. So It seems that the RAID0 is still running on them. But I can´t boot from them. The minute I switch SATA mode to RAID in BIOS the PC wont start and ASUS -logo is frozen on the screen.

Good news is that i can pull data out of that RAID0. There are only windows and program files. Everything else is safe in third drive.

I´ll do what i can but tis there a way to make an image out of what is on those RAID0 drives and put it on this new installation? Or any other way to copy / transfer programs that I want to be installed?

I´m doing clean installation now and then make an image out of it thats for sure.


OCZ tools wont recognize those drives at all.
 
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Some SATA controllers may not allow proper access to the drive for the toolbox. Make sure it is hooked to the chipset controller, not any addon controller. That board has an ASMedia controller for two additional 6Gb ports, which might not work with the toolbox. It should be fine to use the 3Gb connections. You're going for communication, not speed, for this. Also, hook them up one at a time only, not both at once.
 
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