Show us your SSD performance

I only have the Microsoft drivers. Even the internal HDD's are showing up.

I turned on the AHCI in Bios then it loaded the MS drivers after boot then the Eject Icon appeared.
I looked in with the printers (above posting snip) and all the drives were listed.

I figured it must be normal but it is a bit odd.

I think it has to do with the Hot Swap ability from what I could gather.

I think that is what it is. After all, one of the benefits of ahci is supposed to be the hot swap ability. Many people don't like it, I just pay close attention to what I eject. Doesn't bother me.

essenbe said:

...I believe if using the msahci driver it is normal, but if using iaStor ahci driver (IRST) it does not show up like that.

That was my experience. :)

Hopalong X said:

...I think it has to do with the Hot Swap ability from what I could gather.

Exactly. It in effect wants to treat all your drives as if they were external drives or hot-swappable drives. As A Guy pointed out, clicking the thing by accident would be a mistake.

I had IRST installed at one time and used the iastor driver. I don't remember whether the internal drives showed up. I changed the driver to msahci. The IRST was causing my CPU to run at about 25% all the time, so I uninstalled it.

profdlp, I have never done it, but if you clicked one by mistake couldn't you just plug it back in same as you do an external hard drive?

I disabled the IAStorDataMgrSvc service (to no ill effect) for the same reason. :)

essenbe said:

profdlp, I have never done it, but if you clicked one by mistake couldn't you just plug it back in same as you do an external hard drive?

I don't really know. I suspect you would have to open the case and unplug it first, though. I guess it's also possible that a reboot might do it.

The big question would be what would happen if it were your "C:\" drive you ejected. Any guinea pigs out there?

Your computer would crash. As far as guinea pigs - I might have been born at night, but it wasn't last night.

essenbe said:

profdlp, I have never done it, but if you clicked one by mistake couldn't you just plug it back in same as you do an external hard drive?

Theoretically yes for the HDD's.
Never tried it but it should work just like eSata or Sata external would.

I'm not sure what would happen if you eject the SSD while the OS is booted.

Where is the virtual padlock for the SSD eject?

Guinea Pigs?
Where did A Guy go?

For me, the best of both worlds is to use the IAStor driver and keep the service disabled. No high CPU overhead, no icons to spaz out on and click by mistake. No performance degredation.