SandForce "SF-22XX" issues and workarounds

[Anvil]

This thread is for the general discussion and possible workarounds for the SF-22xx based SSD's.

There are lot's of suggested workarounds and we've been scratching the surface in the Endrance thread trying to find a way to avoid the dreaded disconnects, freezes and BSODs that some of the SF-2281 based drives have been plagued with.

In my case I've been having problems with the SF-2281 drive used in the Endurance thread.
In general it lasts for somewhere between 25-35 hours and as it's used as a secondary/spare drive it simply disconnects at some random point, there have been total freezes as well but disconnects is the norm.

Up to date I've been using the drive on both AMD SB850, Intel Z68 and X58 based motherboards and none of them have been successful, in the end the drive disconnects.

Still, there are a lot of suggestions and possible workarounds to try and some of them involve
- RAID option ROM's for the Intel chipsets
- Intel RST Kits/drivers
- Enabling/Disabling TRIM
- Power saving



more to come...