Hi, I have a small issue with an ocz vertex 2 ssd.
I have a p35c-ds3r MB, and recently upgraded to Win7 on a single 60GB OCZ Vertex 2 SSD. While this generally works fine, I can't get it to work the way I want it to. I can boot off the intel sata ports in ide mode and ahci mode, but not when set for raid. The Intel raid/ahci bios doesn't seem to recognise the ocz as a non-member.
The issue is that i'm trying to setup a pair of 500GB Hdd's in raid0. I'm trying to avoid using the Gigabyte jmicron sata ports, as the throughput is low.. 125MB/s vs 200MB/s+ on the intel sata ports. Perhaps the PCI-E bus is the bottleneck.. not sure.
So I'm trying to get both the SSD and the two hdd's (in raid0) working on the intel sata ports. However as mentioned above, when I enable raid in the BIOS on the intel controller, it won't recognise the SSD as a non-member in the raid bios setup (after typing ctrl-I), and won't attempt to boot off it.
I'm aware from the OCZ SSD forums that there have been issues with SMART errors on gigabyte MB's when using 1.11 firmware release on the vertex 2 ssd's. There have been beta bios's released for many of the gigabyte MB's on the German Gigabyte forum, but not for p35c-ds3r. Not that this will solve my problem, but it might include a later raid/ahci bios that might solve the issue. I'm running the F12E bios, which contains an early 1.07 intel AHCI bios. Might just be a case of being patient and waiting for ocz to release new firmware, and/or gigabyte to release new bios.
There is a beta bios available for p35-ds3r.. Does anyone know if this is comaptable with p35c-ds3r?
Note that i tryed running the ssd on the gigabyte sata ports, and while it works fine, the seq read is limited to 125MB/s comapared to 200MB/s+ on the Intel sata ports. Perhaps i will have to leave it like this, with ssd on gigabyte sata and two hdd (in raid0) on intel sata, (or vice versa), and re-test both on intel sata when/if a new bios or ocz firmware is released.
