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SSD and AHCI Drivers

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DarkScythe

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Hello everyone,

I am making the jump to an SSD, and taking the chance to upgrade from WinXP to Win7 at the same time.

Two firsts for me, which could be troubling but, I have a quick question about the AHCI drivers.

Should I leave it alone and use Win7's native AHCI drivers, or should I install Intel's RST drivers? I'll only have a single SSD as boot, and about a half dozen HDD's not in RAID.

Thanks!
 
Either way is fine. There may be some small performance gains from using Intel's RST - but probably nothing significant. You can always try it and see if it makes a difference.
 
All right, I just wanted to make sure there were no penalties regarding TRIM or something that I forgot about.

I remember at one point people preferred one over the other, but I can't remember why, nor can I figure out what thread I saw it in.
 
Thanks, I'll grab the Intel ones and see what happens; hopefully nothing spontaneously explodes.

What about the Intel Matrix Storage driver things? Should I bother, since I'm not doing RAID?
 
Intel drives originally didn't support TRIM, that was fixed a while ago tho, just make sure you're using a current version.
 
I just updated mine and the newest version is 10.6.0.1022.

It doesn't seem to make any difference but I'm just starting to play with it. :)
 
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