SSD + Mobo question

[Christobevii3]

I have an asus m3a32 with a sb600 and just purchased a agility 2. I have been running an original 30GB core okish on it but know the new drive is much faster. My problem is from reading is that the onboard sata ports seem to be pretty limited in performance and would limit the ssd, is this correct? Looks like the onboard you dont get trim through the win7 driver or amd's right now either.

If so, my first option is to put it onto my 3ware 9650se. It is an 8 port with 4 ports being used for a raid 5 storage array. Would this be the better option? Would trim work through this or not?

Third option is to pick up a basic pci express add in card or a nicer raid card to replace my 3ware. Opinions here for ones that would work with trim and not be terrible?

Thanks!

 

[sub.mesa]

There is nothing faster than the onboard ports; so your information appears to be incorrect. Any add-on card, even the most expensive Areca Hardware RAID, would slow down your SSD especially in terms of IOps; not counting the write-back mechanism for hiding write requests of course.

Any Serial ATA gets you TRIM, as long as you use the Microsoft AHCI driver. Check with AS SSD (google) if you are using msahci driver, and it also tells u if your SSD is aligned (1024K - OK).

Any hardware RAID means you lose trim and make the SSD slower. I don't see any reason why you would want that.

 

[Christobevii3]

Anyone else know? I've seen a handful of performance issues with win 7 and the amd 600...

 

[sub.mesa]

So use Microsoft AHCI drivers not the AMD driver; if you would use the AMD AHCI driver you also would not have TRIM support. So all the reasons to avoid those drivers and use the default Microsoft one. That means you should not install any 'chipset drivers' as these typically include storage drivers as well.