amd, TRIM and vertex 60gb

[panyan]

i bought a vertex 60gb the other day (epic tuesday) for an amd build that i am planning

i bought a cheap Asus M4A78LT-M LE board and was going to put a cheap phenom II for the time being until bulldozer came out and i was going to get a new mobo + cpu

BUT now i read that TRIM support isnt available on AMD boards

i am now very confused and dont know what to do...

 

[Philtor]

It's my understanding that for TRIM to work you just need to be running Windows 7 and a SSD which supports it. Can anyone else confirm this?

 

[DragonQ]

TRIM is part of the SATA specification and so should work on any SATA controller on any motherboard. The three ingredients you need are:

- An OS that supports TRIM (Windows 7)
- SATA driver that supports TRIM (the latest Intel RST drivers and MS drivers do, not sure about AMD's drivers so it's probably best to stick to default MS drivers)
- An SSD that supports TRIM (Vertex does but only with firmware 1.5 or 1.6)

Oh, and your SATA controller can't be in RAID mode. Use AHCI.

 

[panyan]

- SATA drivers that support TRIM (the latest AMD drivers)

so the amd drivers support TRIM? that is the real question as we know windows 7 and the vertex support TRIM

 

[DragonQ]

Please read my edit. It's not clear to me whether they do based on a few Google searches. You can use MS drivers though.

 

[panyan]

You can use MS drivers though.

are the MS drivers good? does the drive perform as normal?

 

[panyan]

cheeky bump

 

[DragonQ]

MS drivers are fine. Using controller-specific drivers squeezes that last bit out of the SSD's performance but is not essential by any means.

 

[panyan]

MS drivers are fine. Using controller-specific drivers squeezes that last bit out of the SSD's performance but is not essential by any means.

so im not going to get poor speeds and regret buying it?

 

[DragonQ]

No, the difference is probably like 5%.

 

[panyan]

No, the difference is probably like 5%.

alright - sweet