That's a ridiculous suggestion. Going to the BIOS menu to make sure that the drive is there is a good idea, but resetting your CMOS is crazy.
SATA drives are hot plug, so what I would suggest is to boot your computer, then plug in the drive. After ~1m it should show up.
It's not showing up, and if I wait it will attempt to boot to windows but hang and never get there. Another person suggested I go through the wiki boot sequence for the drive. However I have yet to find their wiki. Brilliant tech support.
Hmm, If your two other drives weren't raided I'd suggest unplugging one of them and then plugging in the SSD in its place - at least then you know the cable and the connection are good. I guess you could unplug both normal drives and just plug in the SSD and boot to BIOS or CD-ROM - just to make sure the SSD is working.
All the SSDs I've seen have the standard cable connections (i.e. 1x SATA power cable straight from your power supply and 1x SATA connector cable from your motherboard), unless you got a PCIe drive or something weird. But the OCZ Vertex drives should plug in as normal drives.
If I unplug my raided drives will that screw up the drives? I mean will all my data be lost?
Ok so it's working today. It's possible that I didnt connect it fully, but Im sure I jammed that thing in there. Here's hoping it kicks ass!
Just wanted to provide some feedback on this drive. It's fast, but it has massive issues. First the install wouldnt work (BIOS didnt recognize) and now it appears to be corrupting my WoW data. Waste of 300 bucks imo. Ah well, maybe it will play my mp3 collection real fast. /twirlsfinger
oh yeah....OCZ is just a pain. they use those JMICRON controllers, not a fan of them at all. Guess i shoulda mentioned that before.
Crap I wish I knew that beforehand =(
Yeah I'm awaiting the arrival of my SSD, I specifically bought a Corsair Extreme series one because it uses the Indilinx controller and Samsung NANDA for the data storage. Paid a bit of a premium ($145cdn for just a 32gb), but I think it will be worth it.
Here's hoping mine works out better than your story so far! Should be here by Mon/Tue...
Oh and yeah, I need to find another short-plug or right-hand plug SATA cable so it'll fit underneath the vid card.
Um.. No. They were the one origninal company (other than Intel) that doesn't us JMicron stuff. They use the barefoot controller form Indilinx.Originally Posted by byte
Source.
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3631
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3608
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3608
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3535
http://www.ocztechnology.com/product...ata_ii_2_5-ssd
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