***Asus Rampage III Extreme Owners Thread***

[AKHandyman]

Okay guys ... been absent from here for awhile due to many things going on up in Alaska ... summers are short but plenty of daylight!! I just recently added a second Crucial C300 64GB SSD to my setup and moved both of them over to the Marvell controller/Drive Xpert Config. Using the RAID 0 function, I was able to get both of them working in the Drive Xpert Configuration, but now, it's crashing quite often, with the newer drive always dropping off the array. Only a power off/reboot causes the drive to come back. And it seemed to most often crash during a windows update. At first, I thought it might be my win install, but uninstalled it and tried again. Same thing ... So the question is this ... could the fact that one of my C300 SSDs has a different firmware revision be the culprit? One is 0002 and the newer one is 0006. Could the two not be playing together nice? Or is it just this crappy Marvell 91xx controller? I have already RMAed this board because I was having problems with the controller dropping drives. If this is the case, I am gonna scream!!!

AK

[fmsam]

Rev 7 is now available for the C300, I have just upgraded all 3 of mine and the procedure was fairly straight forward and easy to do, all drives had data on them, no harm done and working well.
As for the Marvell, forget you even have it ! run them on the ICH10R.
Those of us who stepped up from RE2 to RE3 thinking we would get Sata 3 6gb/s were ripped off, it does not work.

[AKHandyman]

Okay ... now since I last posted about an hour and half ago, I decided to see if maybe it was the way the drives were set up in the BIOS of the Marvell controller (Ver. 1.0.0. 1019) as opposed to just using the Drive Xpert Configuration ( I know ... I know... ) I had successfully gotten through a full custom install using my USB stick and then I further went through my custom setup of Win7. Went to windows updates and downloaded them and went to restart and now I have a BSOD about a failed boot mount. WHAT THE F***!!?? Even Win7 repair can't fix this ... sheesh! I give up on this Marvell controller ... I just hate to have to pull one of my RAID arrays off the Intel to try to run these two C300 in a RAID 0 config. I suppose I should just get a 128GB SSD and use that for my OS and just scrap using that damn Marvell controller all together ...

EDIT: Just tried restarting this pig and the OS came back like as if nothing was wrong ... gotta be some gremlins in my shop ...