Need help. Raid 0 SSD Error on Bootup

PrAwKsee · October 3, 2014

So this morning I started up my computer to a lovely bootup screen error! The bootup splash screen that normally displays my hard drives said that one of my Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB ssd's had an "Error Occurred (0)".

After stalling for a few seconds my computer did manage to boot up into windows and functions normally for the most part. Unfortunately it has frozen a few times while doing random things like moving around files or watching Linus on youtube. I immediately started backing up all my important files on my 2TB seagate in case shit really hits the fan and I lose everything.

I installed Intel Rapid Storage Technology and it is saying that one of my ssds is "Failing" even though I can boot up into windows.

Here are the things I do know that's going on:

My computer is freaking out thinking that the raid array is broken but I can boot into windows and function "normally" for the most part.

I have noticed while backing up a few files that some of the files could not be read from the hard disk which is leading me to believe that I might have done something yesterday on my computer that may have produced some bad sectors.

Yesterday I installed a few programs, uncompressed a ton of files at once and updated AMD catalyst to the latest and updated my graphics drivers too. After doing all of that within a relatively short time span my computer starting acting funny and freezing. Could it also be a loose or faulty SATA cable?

I marked the error in Intel Rapid Storage Technology as "normal" and restarted my computer. Everything booted up normally and so far nothing seems wrong as I'm posting this with the very same computer.

What should I do next?

Should I just ignore it? Or should I break the array and reformat windows using the image backup on my secondary on the good SSD and just use the second SSD for normal storage?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Edit: This computer is relatively new. I built it in January. Specs are down below.

Seq · October 4, 2014

That Intel Rapid Storage might lose one drive for a moment and then mark it as bad.

If you have to use Raid 0 (=there is no redundancy), you should make sure, that your backups are ok.

One can have almost as good performance with Raid 1 as Raid 0, if raid-solution (=card) is ok.

Columbo · October 5, 2014

If you have an external Hard drive USB reader. Reformat your SSD's is disk management and reinstall them from scratch. That is the best way to trouble shoot. Start the entire process over from the beginning.