New Corsair P128 SSD

Whichever, both will work well with that SSD. I've got the Samsung PB22-J 256G which is identical to your Corsair (except it is the 256G version), and windows vista 64bit installed very quickly on it last night. In the longer term windows 7 will be better on it if they release a firmware update that supports the TRIM* command (which is supported by win7 not vista IIRK).

*TRIM allows the disk to harvest unused blocks (where data has been "deleted"), this means that the write speeds improve under normal use as the delete can be done at an idle time, and does not have to be done at the same time as the OS is trying to write to it.
 
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Whichever, both will work well with that SSD. I've got the Samsung PB22-J 256G which is identical to your Corsair (except it is the 256G version), and windows vista 64bit installed very quickly on it last night. In the longer term windows 7 will be better on it if they release a firmware update that supports the TRIM* command (which is supported by win7 not vista IIRK).

*TRIM allows the disk to harvest unused blocks (where data has been "deleted"), this means that the write speeds improve under normal use as the delete can be done at an idle time, and does not have to be done at the same time as the OS is trying to write to it.
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Yes I was reading about TRIM last night. Seems the Samsung branded and Samsung based drives don't support this yet, and there is currently no way for the end user to upgrade the firmware of the drive themselves. So unless Samsung do a u-turn, looks like we'll be stuck without TRIM. Yes my understanding is that TRIM will only be supported by Win7, but I'm not sure if it has that functionality yet, or if any drives currently support TRIM. I also read that even keeping your drive with a decent amount of free space doesn't prevent you from suffering from the dreaded block-rewrite penalty. I have no idea how much of an effect this will have on performance.
 
put win7 on, its optimised for ssd's unlike other O.S's which you manually need to configure settings. Also build v7229 is perfectly stable and you can use it for about 9 months or so before the trial runs out.
 
I've actually put Vista with SP2 on it as I had some annoying problems with my iPhone on 7. What Vista features should be turned off when using an SSD?
 
You might want to turn off indexing, this is a PITA even with a standard disk IMO. Also If you use windows live onecare, or any other security & tuning suite, make sure you don't allow it to defrag the SSD!!!

Leaving a decent amount of space on the drive shouldn't make any difference. The drive already has more capacity than it allows you to use, so that it always has some blocks available to clear when you want to write to the disk. SSD controllers perform ware leveling, so when you write to it, it always uses an unused block rather than writing over the data on the block that originally had that data. This means, you will have technically used all of the blocks at least once within a few days of running your swap file on that disk.
 
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Just installed Windows 7 build 7229 on a Corsair P128 SSD and look at the performance rating



I wonder what a RAID O performance will be:rolleyes:
 
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reygjabla said:
Just installed Windows 7 build 7229 on a Corsair P128 SSD and look at the performance rating



I wonder what a RAID O performance will be:rolleyes:
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got a 7.9 with three of the £90 previous gen samsungs in RAID0, which isn't a massive amount faster than a pb22-j.
 
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