An other M225 question

The Boxer

The Boxer

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Hi all,
If all goes well I will be upgrading very soon, my 128gig M225 has arrived and my sata2 raptor is on it's way, I'm running an abit IX38quad gt and wonder if I should run the m225 and raptor in AHCI, any benefits??

I will be installing Win7 32bit as part of the upgrade..

Many thanks, T Box
 
No not really, just a case of better the devil you know..............

I'm on a duo core and have no software at present which uses 64 bit, I may well re-visit the 64bit option in the spring, which should have given me plenty of time to get to grips with W7.

any thoughts on the HDD controllers, IDE Vs AHCI.

Box
 
From what I understand, SSD's need AHCI enabled for Trim to work. The Raptor will also benefit from AHCI as it supports NCQ. It other words, yes, run them both in AHCI mode.
 
I just built a system and have just updated my sig,
I flashed the m225 to the 1891 bios out the box ( it was on 15xx), set the foxconn bios to AHCI, installed win 7 64 bit and it zooms,

From what i see using crystalmark i have good>great results, i did a screenie of my last result and will post it when i get home.

How much ram you using?
Dont waste your time on 32 bit, go straight to 64, your system will be better for it.
 
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Set it to AHCI, it will improve performance though you won't be able to see it :) As long as you use the native MS driver then TRIM should be supported providing the M225 is running firmware revision 1819, the current Intel (I'm assuming it's an Intel chipset) drivers don't support and pass through the TRIM commands from Windows 7 to the drive.

As with the Intel drives if you are planning to upgrade the Indilinx firmware on the M225s then you should set them to IDE mode for the flash.
 
Mel_P said:
But isn't this post about Crucial SSDs? Confused on all fronts!
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Sorry, what I was trying to say was that a reason someone might think that you need to have an SSD configured to IDE in order for TRIM to work, is because some SSD makes require (or recommend) that you are in IDE mode when flashing the firmware (e.g. to a firmware with TRIM support). However once you have updated the firmware to one supporting TRIM (or have an SSD with TRIM support already), you need to be in AHCI mode for TRIM to work.

Matthew
 
Apart from gaining TRIM under 1891 you also lose about 30-35MB/s in write speed.

Better off with 1571 and running Wiper every now and then to clean the garbage until they sort out the performance problems with TRIM.
 
marscay said:
Apart from gaining TRIM under 1891 you also lose about 30-35MB/s in write speed.

Better off with 1571 and running Wiper every now and then to clean the garbage until they sort out the performance problems with TRIM.
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well i have read around in the last few days and not everyone suffers the performance loss, it seems vary on board to board and drive to drive.
Here are my results, with AHCI enabled, no additional drivers installed as yet and i flashed straight to 1891 firmware with nothing on the drive



They seem acceptable in comparision around the forum and tbh is it was slighly worse it would still pwn a standard HDD
 
I'm running the same board & drivers by the looks of it, mine looked fine for a little while also and then suffered the hit.

Was just a heads up to anybody that may not have known about the issue - no-one is saying it cripples the drive completely but it's there nonetheless.
 
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