Missing SSD after RAID Configuration

AllenSalar · April 28, 2016

Hi, after consulting another user here in LTT, I decided to remove my RAID 0 Configuration on my 2 SSDs. I did a secure erase on both SSDs with 1 erase count and an erase pattern of 55. It only detects my first SSD now. It both shows up in the BIOS and the Device Manager but it is not usable as storage device. What do I do?

EDIT: Finally fixed it by writing Zeroes on it.

scottyseng · April 29, 2016

8 hours ago, AllenSalar said:

Hi, after consulting another user here in LTT, I decided to remove my RAID 0 Configuration on my 2 SSDs. I did a secure erase on both SSDs with 1 erase count and an erase pattern of 55. It only detects my first SSD now. It both shows up in the BIOS and the Device Manager but it is not usable as storage device. What do I do?

Did you change both SSDs from RAID to AHCI in BIOS? Does it show up in Disk management?

AllenSalar · April 29, 2016

Oh, my bad. I meant to close this thread. I had to write Zeroes on the SSD. And yes, I did switch. And no, it does not. Although I fixed it though, I appreciate the help.

scottyseng · April 29, 2016

1 minute ago, AllenSalar said:

Oh, my bad. I meant to close this thread. I had to write Zeroes on the SSD. And yes, I did switch. And no, it does not. Although I fixed it though, I appreciate the help.

Weird though, you shouldn't have to write zeros to the SSD to break a RAID config. I'm happy you got it working though.