coolVariable,
From the third link in your "let me Google that for you:"
http://techreport.com/discussions.x/18653
So Intel's supposed support for TRIM in RAID mode is mainly marketing spin, as there is no real benefit to running a drive in RAID mode unless it's actually part of an...
coolVariable, the AMD SB710, a pretty old chipset, supports true AHCI, TRIM and NCQ while using the MS drivers. Not sure what you mean by "full speed." Obviously not all SATA chipsets will perform identically in all usage patterns.
The Intel SATA controllers might slightly outperform the AMD...
Good info, thanks for all the responses.
I think I'm going to go with an AMD-based motherboard (probably SB710) because:
It supports true AHCI
The MS AHCI driver will support TRIM and NCQ and will perform as well as or better than the AMD driver, whereas with the nVidia chipsets you...
Thanks for the info about AMD chipsets! I'm building a budget gaming rig soon based around a Phenom II X2 3.1 GHz and I had been considering an nVidia MCP61P-based board, but after reading some comments, including yours, I am now leaning toward an AMD SB710-based board like this...
Couple questions:
1. Is the consensus that to get proper Windows 7 TRIM support on AMD/nVidia chipset-based motherboards, you need to use the standard Microsoft PCI Standard Dual IDE Controller driver (i.e. either MSAHCI.SYS or PCIIDE.SYS)?
These threads seem to indicate, yes...
Maybe that explains it. It sounds like they're saying that the Intel controller allows you to manually set the free space through some proprietary API. But it does not say that simply making a smaller partition in Windows accomplishes this. Maybe this special ability of Intel controllers is...
Granted, the SSD is aware of its internally-allocated free space. E.g. an SSD with an advertised 80G capacity might have 5~10G internal free space in addition to the 80G of virtual LBA's that it exposes to the ATA host. But if you made a 75G partition, the SSD would have no way of knowing that...
Hacp, how exactly would the SSD directly recognize the free space when you partition a drive in Windows to less than its full reported space? An ATA device like an SSD or conventional HD doesn't know what a partition is -- that's just a logical construct, defined by data stored in an LBA...
I'm just getting back to this thread. Thanks for your thoughts.
It sounds like, as I suspected, the spare space gained by using a smaller partition isn't recognized directly by the SSD. I guess what Anand was saying is that leaving some space unpartitioned just gives the SSD more breathing...
I was re-reading Anand's SSD articles in preparation for recommending a good bang-for-buck SSD/HD combo for a new system build, when I came across this statement:
(See http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531&p=9 and scroll to the last paragraph.)
To me this doesn't make sense. As...
Thanks for the confirmation, guys. Now does anyone have a link to a PDF or specification where this is spelled out in black and white? I suppose they wouldn't specifically answer this question, but there's probably a paragraph somewhere about how ATA/IDE connectors work with cable-select vs...
Greetings Anandtech'ers. (I've been absent for a few years; in the meantime I grew my techie business and got a diploma in software engineering. Currently I work full time as a programmer for internal business systems at a local software company here in Vancouver. It feels good to post in the...
I'll cast my vote for the C-Media based cards. Let's support a smaller manufacturer that puts out a good product.
I personally use the Chaintech AV512 in a lot of builds and it works well. In my experience, all decent sound cards yield the same sound quality, provided your volume levels are...
Minimum framerates definitely have a high visceral impact on the gameplay experience. That few seconds of low fluidity can really kill your suspension of disbelief. Some sites like Ace's Hardware make a point of including minimum FPS numbers in certain reviews, and it'd be nice to see them...
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