SSD's show Status Critical in Raid 0 and Raid 1.

Lonewolfblue

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Any ideas why my system would be showing Status Critical and the system crashes when in Raid 0 or Raid 1? I now set the motherboard bios back to AHCI, and it doesn't matter which SSD I use as the boot drive, they work flawlessly, and benchmark very well. Below is some info....

Both SSD's are 120GB OCZ Vector 150's
Running Windows 10 Technical Preview
ASRock 970 Extreme3 R2.0 AM3+
Crucial Ballistix Sport Very Low Profile 32GB Kit (8GBx4) DDR3-1600 1.35V UDIMM 240-Pin
Corsair 750W Power Supply
AMD Phenom II X6 1075T 3 GHz Six Core
Western Digital Green 2TB Drive
GeForce GTX 980 SC Graphics card

Addition:
The 2 SSD's are plugged into SATA0 and SATA1 ports, HDD in SATA2 port, and the Blue Ray Burner in SATA3 port, all ports are SATA3 6GB.
 
I was using the onboard Raid through ASRock. I also flashed the bios so that it's got the latest bios update. And when I installed Win 10, the only thing I did is install all the updates. I just got Win 8.1, I may put that on and try it.
 
Well, I think I figured out the problem. My system started crashing in Windows 8.1 as well (when not in RAID). But the drives didn't show Critical status. It would run a while, then could go blue on me. So after a couple days, I needed to transfer some pics from my camera to the computer, so I plugged in my USB 3 card reader and put in the SD card. Picked it up just fine. But as soon as I dropped the files from the card on the desktop, it crashed. After a restart, did it again. Then tried plugging it into the USB 2 port in the back, and it worked just fine. So I decided to go to the manufacturers website and see what they had for drivers, and I downloaded the latest USB 3 drivers for the motherboard, and all is good. The computer has not crashed since. I think the whole problem has been caused by the drivers that Windows was using for the USB 3. Since then, I've also updated all the other drivers for the motherboard as well, just to be sure. Including the RAID drivers. When I get time, I'm thinking of putting the SSD's back into RAID and install Windows 8.1 again and update the drivers to the latest from the manufacturer, and see if it fixes the problem when in RAID as well.