- Joined
- Sep 29, 2012
- Location
- Fresno, CA
Okay, earlier I had tested my C-drive SSD speeds with Crystal Disk and they are just over 300 for read and over 200 for write (image included below); I am running two, one-year old, Corsair Neutron GTX' in RAID-0, in SATA III on my EVGA X58 Classified 3. Needless to say those speeds are vastly off from where they should be at.
Today I attempted to install and use Corsair SSD Toolbox, but it is only showing a few fields in the drive info area, most of the fields are blank, 0, N/A, and I cannot access any of the features they are all either shaded out or show that feature as not supported for these drives.
In BIOS they used to be set to RAID, but I this morning I had changed that to AHCI upon recommend settings for the Toolbox, which did not help resolve anything.
One issue that has concerned me ever since I installed my Windows 7 (Ultimate, 64bit), is that Windows has always treated my SSD raid, which is my primary drive, as a removable device, running it under a 'Marvell raid VD 0 ATA Device'. I have never been able to figure out how to make it stop doing this or prevent it from using the Marvell driver, uninstall it, install another driver in its place, stop it from being listed as a removable drive, etc.
So now I am wondering if the above issue is the root of my inability to use the Toolbox, along with my poor read/write speeds, or if my SSD have serious hardware issues and need to be replaced (although software shows their condition as good)?
Advice on how to resolve these issues would be much appreciated (e.g., at this point I am wondering if I should copy this drive over to my WD (or if using that Windows backup feature is safer to use), order two new replacement drives, setup a new raid, and copy the files back?)
Today I attempted to install and use Corsair SSD Toolbox, but it is only showing a few fields in the drive info area, most of the fields are blank, 0, N/A, and I cannot access any of the features they are all either shaded out or show that feature as not supported for these drives.
In BIOS they used to be set to RAID, but I this morning I had changed that to AHCI upon recommend settings for the Toolbox, which did not help resolve anything.
One issue that has concerned me ever since I installed my Windows 7 (Ultimate, 64bit), is that Windows has always treated my SSD raid, which is my primary drive, as a removable device, running it under a 'Marvell raid VD 0 ATA Device'. I have never been able to figure out how to make it stop doing this or prevent it from using the Marvell driver, uninstall it, install another driver in its place, stop it from being listed as a removable drive, etc.
So now I am wondering if the above issue is the root of my inability to use the Toolbox, along with my poor read/write speeds, or if my SSD have serious hardware issues and need to be replaced (although software shows their condition as good)?
Advice on how to resolve these issues would be much appreciated (e.g., at this point I am wondering if I should copy this drive over to my WD (or if using that Windows backup feature is safer to use), order two new replacement drives, setup a new raid, and copy the files back?)