ASUS RAIDR Express, where'd it go?

[bluestreak]

Hey everyone,

 

I've been a fan of all of the Asus ROG products and I am still rocking the Original Crosshair board. I continue to upgrade ram and GPU etc and it is only after nearly 8 years am I in need of replacing it!

 

So for "Phase 1" of my new PC I bought myself one of Asus GTX780-DC2OC-3GD5, a corsair RM1000 (I love the fully modular aspect of this thing) and an Asus RAIDR Express.

 

The second part of my build was to get a Rampage IV Black edition, that is, until the new x99 was released

 

So I have been waiting until after xmas to purchase the next wave of goodies but last weekend my RAIDR poop'd itself!

 

If you don't already know the RAIDR is essentially two SSD's in a striped RAID array. One of the two SSD's has simply vanished. and one cannot work when the other has died so I lost my windows drive.

 

It was at this moment I started to do some research to see if anyone else had issues and I have actually come up with nothing. The RAIDR Express appears to have no real presence. It got me thinking, did I in fact buy a useless overpriced SSD? The more I searched the more I came to this conclusion. So I hurried along and got an RMA with the supplier and have promptly sent it back.

 

After I had posted it I thought to myself. I don't remember seeing it on their website again and sure enough it has disappeared from almost every NZ web store. Now I think ok I will have to find an alternative PCI-E SSD (I want to be different!).

 

The supplier has started to sell Mushkin drives which I research and find they have some good reviews but I come back to thinking, they all look a bit boring. They're all just PCI boards and I like the way the RAIDR Express looks. I drill a bit deeper and find they do not support UEFI, something I wanted to take advantage of on the RAIDR. 

 

Ok now I'm worried! My questions to the community (If you have made it thus far!) are:

 

Has Asus stopped supplying these cards? 

 

Is it likely I'll get one back or do you think I will have to settle for something else?

 

I'm not looking for a definitive answer, just maybe some insight into whether Asus have decided the SSD market was not for them. My experiance with the RAIDR was a very positive one. I got great speeds on an old system and it was an absolute doddle to install. It was also very pretty

 

Cheers Guys and Gals