Wildfire RAID 0 Stripe - Firmware Updater Utility *DOES NOT* Detect Either Drive

[Prodimysterio]

So much for me being able to upgrade the firmware with my RAID-0 stripe intact. Any explanation as to why?

This is the biggest waste of $600 I have ever spent.

[Leonard]

I read on another site, crucial ssd , that the drives have to be updated individually.
Don't know what Patriot's policy is.

[Patriot_VL]

So much for me being able to upgrade the firmware with my RAID-0 stripe intact. Any explanation as to why?

This is the biggest waste of $600 I have ever spent.

You cannot update the firmware in raid as the drive are not being detect as individual drives anymore. This is not just Patriot Memory drives that are like this. All drives are like this.

[Prodimysterio]

You cannot update the firmware in raid as the drive are not being detect as individual drives anymore. This is not just Patriot Memory drives that are like this. All drives are like this.

It would have been helpful to have information like this up front instead of after the fact. And to another point that will likely be touched upon, yes, I could have done some additional reading before I posted a rant.

Moving on to the current moment, I broke the RAID 0 stripe and successfully upgraded both of my Wildfire 120's to 3.2.0. I have since installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 Ultimate x64 with all of the latest drivers for my Gigabyte Z68-B3-UD7. Thus far - No issues. I am highly skeptical and some gaming sessions will tell the real story. I will report back over the coming days to let everyone know how it is going.

[Patriot_VL]

It would have been helpful to have information like this up front instead of after the fact. And to another point that will likely be touched upon, yes, I could have done some additional reading before I posted a rant.

Moving on to the current moment, I broke the RAID 0 stripe and successfully upgraded both of my Wildfire 120's to 3.2.0. I have since installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 Ultimate x64 with all of the latest drivers for my Gigabyte Z68-B3-UD7. Thus far - No issues. I am highly skeptical and some gaming sessions will tell the real story. I will report back over the coming days to let everyone know how it is going.

I have added the information about RAID in hopes to help others as well. Keep us posted on your RAID 0 setup. We have done testing with RAID 0 240GB Wildfire on Asus Maximus IV Extreme Z and has yet to come into any issues.

[Prodimysterio]

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I'm confused...Before the firmware upgrade with the RAID stripe BSOD'ing I could run ATTO 2.46 at its default settings and was able to hit over 1 GB/sec reads and ~900 MB/sec writes. Now, it's acting like a single drive.

WTF is that all about?

[Prodimysterio]

Some mighty interesting results here folks. The key for me was *TURNING OFF* the option for "Turn off Windows write-cache buffer flushing on the device." Given, this may very well *ONLY* be applicable to those like me with two of these drives in a RAID 0 stripe, but look at the new ATTO screen shot. That's some blazing read/writes.

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[Prodimysterio]

Now that I am happy, I am expecting the stripe to crash or BSOD about any time now. And if it does damnit, I'm purchasing two OWC Mercury Pro Extreme SSD's and calling it a day lol.

[Patriot_VL]

Now that I am happy, I am expecting the stripe to crash or BSOD about any time now. And if it does damnit, I'm purchasing two OWC Mercury Pro Extreme SSD's and calling it a day lol.

Those are some nice results. Also do not forget to let your system idle (do not let it go into sleep mode or hibernation) over night to let garbage collection run.