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OCZ Solid 2 30GB, 70 CAD$.

nate42nd said:

I have been saying this for a long time. You have to do a lot of research on SSDs and how they interact with a normal desktop environment.....or you can just buy one and install it and hope for the best. I think there should be "manuals" to tell you what tweaks you can make in a Windows environment and something about TRIM and firmware when you buy an SSD, but I understand the manufacturer's reluctance to do this.

Not to be argumentative, but that view of tweaking SSD's is not universally held across the SSD user community.

First off, I am assuming the more recent generation of SSD's. It may apply to the older, first generation models, it may not. I am not even going to worry about JMicron or Samsung controller based models.

Basically, the opposing view is that if you have a latest generation Intel or Indilink controller based SSD, and you install it in Win 7, you are done. No further "tweaks" needed. The tweaks will not get you any significant performance gains and they are not necessary to keep the drive from "wearing out" any faster.

That's the approach I am taking with my Gen2 Intel. The only tweaking I have done is to move some system files and some application data files off the C drive onto a spindle based drive. This was done for space saving reasons however, not performance reasons. We'll see what happens as the months go by.

I agree that manufacturers should be more forthcoming about under what configurations to install the SSD. I also think, with this latest generation, that SSD's have passed that threshold from a hobbyists toy that needs lots of attention to a consumer level computer part that you can pretty much install and forget.

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mpcrsc562 said:

Thanks for the data kensiko, these are respectable numbers. From what I've read...the Solid 2 has an Indilinx controller but only seems to use part of the channels or something. Have you had much problem with it? Has it performed pretty well?

Yes, it's Indilinx. It uses cheaper flash chips, some say it is the same as in Intel X25-V, but I'm not sure. I won't open it to verify

No problem. Just putted it in my laptop, pressed power ON and installed Win7 in 10 minutes with an SD card. I can't feel the difference with my Vertex on my desktop. It's simply fast.

For the US, the deal is still good: NCIXUS.com - Buy OCZ Solid 2 Series Indilinx 30GB 2.5IN SATA2 Solid State Disk Flash Drive SSD - OCZSSD2-2SLD30G.

At NewEgg, they sometims offer the 30GB Vertex for $99. That makes for a good OS disk too. My Win7 hovers around 15GBs since months, but my data files are in another partition.

Well I haven't even given you guys enough time to answer my first question and I'm already back with more. After reading through this thread I decided to do a little more investigating about SSD's and drivers and TRIM but the more I read the more confusing it became, I can't imagine how you are able to really understand all of this stuff, I mean after all I just want to replace a hard drive in my system, surely it can't be that difficult, can it? I read many conflicting things first there is AHCI, the major opinion seems to be that AHCI needs to be active in order for TRIM to function properly. I tried to turn it on in the bios but the PC would not boot. I discovered a post in this thread that has a registry hack that will allow you to do this but I have not tried that yet. Next onto the driver, when I first built the system I installed the Intel driver (not the RAID driver that gets installed from the floppy when you first install Windows) so I currently have version 9.1.1.1013 on my controller, I see in another thread that there is a version 1025 available but according to posts in that thread this is really not a driver update only some INF files, but again it seems that that is really not the best thing to have done, apparently I would have been better off with the Windows driver which supports TRIM. Reading Intel's website it appear that they will be bringing out a driver that supports TRIM "any day now". But they also talk about the new RST drivers instead of the current MST drivers but neither of them are actually released yet. So with that said here are my questions.


1. Should I try to go back to the Windows 7 driver or should I stick with the Intel driver (and is it worth it to install the 1025 update) and use the toolkit to clean up the drive manually until a new TRIM supporting driver is released.


2. Should I hack the registry to get AHCI turned on, or don't I really need that?


3. Should I face the fact that I am too @^%#*^$ stupid to do a drive replacement and be happy with my Raptor.

Thanks for taking the time to read this rant and any help will be greatly appreciated

Tom