Little Help Needed With Corsair x64 SSD

[Seanie's Show]

Quite sometime ago I purchased a Corsair x64 SSD for my machine, loved the speeds to death, but as you do, you always want faster, and its now come to the point where I want to purchase another 64gb or there abouts and RAID them together with my current Corsair drive.

My current Corsair x64 drive has firmware 1.0 on it which is the first original release on it, however Corsair have just released a new firmware update 2.0 which supports TRIM, but me too like many others are experiencing problems when trying to flash this firmware, it seems unless you have an ASUS board or access to one, you have no chance LOL.

What I wanted to know is if I decided to buy another identical drive, which hopefully would come with the latest firmware, is there someway i could copy the newer firmware to the older drive?

My other option would be to grab a Crucial 64gb SSD and not make the same stupid mistake again buying a Corsair Product.

There is an RMA service available where I can send the rive to Corsair for flashing but the turn around time is about 3 weeks, an who the hell can do without there computer for 3 weeks

 

[NugentS]

Just a few comments about SSD RAID.

Trim doesn't work with SSD's in RAID as it would need the RAID controller to support TRIM which (to my knowledge) none do... What you need is background garbage collection (caveat - I don't know about OS based RAID - but who uses that other than penguin heads!!!)

Other than that SSD's in RAID work very well thankyou - I have 4 in a RAID0 array.

What RAID controller are you thinking of using. The 3Wares aren't fast enough and I can't get my Adaptec (brand new card - can't remember the name with 1.2Ghz processor) to work with RAID 0 - so I am having to use the motherboard RAID - which works very well...

Sean

 

[Seanie's Show]

Thanks for your reply, i will be using the RAID controller on my motherboard too ICH10r Intel Matrix, just brought myself a new Crucial 64gb SSD to RAID up with my crappy Corsair x64 SSD, no so crap anymore though now that ive flashed it with the Crucial 1916 firmware.

For anyone wanting to know how to do this and is fed up of waiting for Corsair to get it right, just download the firmware from the Crucial site, put it on a bootable usb stick, you should have 2 pins on the back of the SSD to put jumper, jumper this, the drive then gets picked up as a BAREFOOT blah blah blah, and flash away, you no longer have a Corsair drive, its now a Crucial.

Please note, I have only done this on a X64 Corsair 64gb SSD, if you want to try it, do it at your own risk.

 

[NugentS]

Remember the ICHR10 does not support TRIM - BGC is the only way you have (other than a factory style format) to clear out the rubbish from either drive...

Sean