New build tomorrow, want to "reset" raided SSD's

[sniggle]

I have some core new hardware arriving tomorrow (P6T, i7-920, etc) and I am going to do a clean install of Windows 7. I'm currently running it on my 80GB G2's in raid 0 on a P35 and before I reinstall I want to make sure the drives are "trimmed" or reset in such a way that they know of all the free blocks. I'm not sure what condition they're in now considering I've been using them for about a month now and Intel's drivers don't yet support TRIM in raid. Also, I did not install the borked firmware from a few weeks back so I'm still at the stock firmware.

What is the proper method of doing this? I assume it involves unraiding them and then running a wipe utility but I'm not sure what that would be.

Thanks for any suggestions!

 

[Cyant]

Un-raid them and install Windows 7. Format using the Win 7 setup.

 

[sniggle]

I still want to use them in raid 0, I just want them to be factory fresh. There may be nothing required on my part other than just formatting the raid during setup, but I am not sure.

 

[defaultluser]

Formatting won't do it. There's only one way to do what you want to do without flashing your drives for TRIM:

Secure Erase

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531&p=11

After you do the Secure Erase and install Windows 7, run the SSD Optimizer periodically to maintain your performance level:

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3667&p=3

 

[sniggle]

Formatting won't do it. There's only one way to do what you want to do without flashing your drives for TRIM:

Secure Erase

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531&p=11

After you do the Secure Erase and install Windows 7, run the SSD Optimizer periodically to maintain your performance level:

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3667&p=3

Exactly what I needed, thanks!