Question BIOS does not detect one of the SSDs properly

[henriquejd9]

I was just watching videos on yt when suddenly my pc turned off and when it tried to boot sent me to the BIOS. I've never had any problems with the pc in general until now, have been upgrading some parts without any trouble. I have 2x Kingston V300 120GB SSDs as the boot array, when I went to check physical disk properties one of them shows up just fine, the other one shows up completely wrong information, like the following:

State: New (it's not, has been on the pc for a while)​

Size: 0.7KB​

SMART Status: Not Supported​

Available Space: Disabled​

Serial number 1​

SandForce200026BB​

Plus it shows up as being part of an array I didn't create, and the original array with the 2 drives shows up as offline, with the array status as failed, with only one of the drives showing up on it
I will try to change some stuff to see if I can make it work, but with this info in hand I'm afraid it might have just died on me, so I'm taking some copium and want to know what you guys think, and do you think it's really dead?

PC Specs:​

Gigabyte Aorus Elite B550M​

AMD Ryzen 5600G​

2x8GB DDR4 3200MHz​

Gigabyte GTX 1660 Super​

2x Kingston V300 120GB SSD in RAID0 (the problem at hand)​

1x Seagate Barracuda 2TB HDD​

EVGA 600 BR power supply​

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

Hey there,

Yes, it appears one or both drives are failing. I'd suggest getting a new drive, backing your most important stuff, and then either testing both drives, to find out which is faulty. If one of the drives is faulty RAID won't work.

You can use Crystal Disk Mark to test the drives.

Not much else to do here.

 

[Lutfij]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

Looks to me like the drive needs to be RMA'd if it's yet within a warranty scheme/period. To also add, I don't see any need to actually go with a RAID0 array when you could actually get plenty of speed off of one SSD.

 

[USAFRet]

The V300 came out in 2012-3, so its long out of warranty.

Hopefully you have a good backup of the data that was in this RAID 0?

 

[henriquejd9]

I bought the SSDs just before they were discontinued, so while it's old and no longer has warranty, it's not 10+ years old

At least I didn't have anything too important on them that wasn't backed up, so yeah, I guess I'll delete the arrays, make a new one and install the OS on that, to at least get the pc running again and try to find out which of them is faulty, then I'll look for a new one to change them, thank you guys

 

[USAFRet]

I guess I'll delete the arrays, make a new one and install the OS on that

Why a RAID 0 at all?

They are not any faster than drives on their own.

An older test, but I've not seen anything to contradict this:

One SSD Vs. Two In RAID: Which Is Better?

One SSD is good, right? So, two SSDs in RAID 0 must be better. That’s certainly the case when you're benchmarking sequential performance. But we're finding that, except in extreme examples, one SSD that's twice as large is often better.

www.tomshardware.com

 

[henriquejd9]

Why a RAID 0 at all?

They are not any faster than drives on their own.

An older test, but I've not seen anything to contradict this:

One SSD Vs. Two In RAID: Which Is Better?

One SSD is good, right? So, two SSDs in RAID 0 must be better. That’s certainly the case when you're benchmarking sequential performance. But we're finding that, except in extreme examples, one SSD that's twice as large is often better.

www.tomshardware.com

At the time it did better in the benchmarks so I thought it was good and I kept using it that way, I didn't know at the time the real world difference was negligible, so when I learned it wasn't I didn't bother to change it because I though it would be too much of a hastle to justify, especially because I wouldn't be getting any extra storage or speed. Lasted me for a good while though, and I didn't lose anything important, other than some mc worlds I didn't have backed up and a small game project that I was learning to code lol

 

[USAFRet]

At the time it did better in the benchmarks so I thought it was good and I kept using it that way, I didn't know at the time the real world difference was negligible, so when I learned it wasn't I didn't bother to change it because I though it would be too much of a hastle to justify, especially because I wouldn't be getting any extra storage or speed. Lasted me for a good while though, and I didn't lose anything important, other than some mc worlds I didn't have backed up and a small game project that I was learning to code lol

Even as the article says...benchmarks look great. Real world performance, not so much.

So, moving forward...blow off the RAID 0 completely.