Thinking about a SSD upgrade - what should I know?

Baldrick1001 said:
To be frank matey, I'm not sure. I believe, however, that you have three choices:

1. Try to rollback the sata driver - to see whether it picks up the standard microsft driver - you did set AHCI in the bios didn't you? if not then this could be the prob - if you have installed W7 whilst the bios is configured for IDE then its a hassle to change it...

2. Install the intel toolbox and schedule a clean every week or so to keep it in tip top performance - then do no more

3. Leave well alone and just see whether performance drops off after a month or so, probably it won't.

What motherboard do you have, just want to check it out - i tried your link above but the gigabyte site is down..
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I did actually forget to change it before installing windows but I have done the registry change and changed it in BIOS now so that should have got it working. Not installed Intel Toolbox yet I don't think I'll do that now. Yea I'll see how it does over time.

It's the GIGABYTE x58 UD3 version 1.6 (or 1.1.6) cant remember off the top of my head.

Also, when I tried to instaled Intel RST it said my computer didn't match the minimum requirements - which is why I asked if it was a RAID only thing (don't forget I don't reall know anything!)

Consequently (I think) Intel Toolbox won't work as it highlights my SSD and in blue says Raid no supported so I'm guessing I've configured something wrong. Have it set up in raid but not in a raid configuration?? WTF I don't have a clue lol, sorry.
 
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Are Intel SSDs different from OCZ ones regarding AHCI? According to an OCZ document here, AHCI is bad for SSD's (or maybe just their drives). It says:

"AHCI is not official supported on OCZ SSDs and may under some circumstances affect performance, specifically during windows installation. Enabling AHCI can result in higher performance in synthetic benchmarks for SSDs and HDDs alike, but can cause hang-ups and intermittent freezes in SSDs since it allows multiple access requests to compete for a drive that is not made to address re-ordering of commands in the queue. We recommend AHCI is set to disabled in both Windows and in the BIOS.
Native Command Queuing greatly increases the performance of standard rotational drives but it has no bearing on SSDs."
 
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