I just upgraded to a gigabyte G1 Assassin 2 X79 with a I7 3990(water cooled), 16 gigs of corsair ram, GTX EVGA 670 4 gig S/C ,and a 520 480gig SSD. So my OS is acting a little wonky and I've decided to reinstall win 7. Now on my old OCZ SSD they recommended a secure wipe and reinstall, so is it the same with Intel?. Can I wipe the drive if it is the boot drive?. I've installed the intel ssd toolbox and it seems that they want you to use the drive as a secondary drive to s/w. That's not a real big deal as I"ve installed win 7 on my storage drive as well in the event that the 520 fails to boot. So I can change the boot order and boot the other drive, but I was hoping to just wipe the 520 and reinstall in one fell swoop.
Also it seems that they tie the firmware updates to the toolbox, yet I see one dated 9/1/12 without a toolbox update. Strange, are all firmware updates tied to an updated version of the ssd toobox 