GIGABYTE GA-G41M-ES2L southbridge ICH7/R SSD

[paolocasati248]

I have a Motherboard GIGABYTE GA-G41M-ES2L with southbridge ICH7/R.
I would replace my hard disk with an SSD and I would Know if I will encounter any problem.
I would know if my southbridge ICH7/R (No AHCI support) will support TRIM instruction

 

[clutchc]

Yes, it will work fine. But it will only run at SATA II speed. I recently built a system with the similar G41M-S2PT with a SSD.

 

[paolocasati248]

Yes, it will work fine. But it will only run at SATA II speed. I recently built a system with the similar G41M-S2PT with a SSD.

I know that it will work at SATA II speed but I am wondering if my ICH7/R southbridge will support TRIM instruction

 

[clutchc]

Yes, it will work fine. But it will only run at SATA II speed. I recently built a system with the similar G41M-S2PT with a SSD.

I know that it will work at SATA II speed but I am wondering if my ICH7/R southbridge will support TRIM instruction

That's why I listed the G41M-S2PT board I had. It has the same chipset (north and south bridge). Yes, trim works fine.

 

[paolocasati248]

Yes, it will work fine. But it will only run at SATA II speed. I recently built a system with the similar G41M-S2PT with a SSD.

I know that it will work at SATA II speed but I am wondering if my ICH7/R southbridge will support TRIM instruction

That's why I listed the G41M-S2PT board I had. It has the same chipset (north and south bridge). Yes, trim works fine.

Thank you for the information; I was very uncertain about trim support because ICH7/R doesn't support AHCI

 

[clutchc]

Yes, it will work fine. But it will only run at SATA II speed. I recently built a system with the similar G41M-S2PT with a SSD.

I know that it will work at SATA II speed but I am wondering if my ICH7/R southbridge will support TRIM instruction

That's why I listed the G41M-S2PT board I had. It has the same chipset (north and south bridge). Yes, trim works fine.

Thank you for the information; I was very uncertain about trim support because ICH7/R doesn't support AHCI

Wait. My chipset was the Intel® ICH7. Not the "/R" like yours. But according to this Wikipedia article, the "R" (RAID) should indeed support AHCI. "Only the ICH7DH, ICH7R, ICH7-M, ICH7-M DH chip have AHCI support. The ICH7 (Base) and ICH7-U (Ultra-mobile) chip do not support AHCI."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I/O_Controller_Hub
And yet, my base chipset did indeed support AHCI. Go figure...

Where are you getting your information? There seems to be contradictory information on the web about that. I think TRIM will work in both IDE and ACHI mode on Win XP, Vista, and Win7.

 

[paolocasati248]

I am sorry, I was wrong about my southbridge. Some utilities reported that I have ICH7/R (or ICH7R) but looking in my motherboard datasheet I found that my southbridge is ICH7.
ICH7 doesn't support AHCI

https://communities.intel.com/thread/11980?start=0

https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/www/us/en/io/i-o-controller-hub-7-datasheet.html pag 42

http://www.overclock.net/t/1428462/ssd-on-intel-ich7-and-trim

But I searched and I found that TRIM is supported anyway by ICH7 as you can see in your PC and as is stated in

http://www.overclock.net/t/1428462/ssd-on-intel-ich7-and-trim

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=34179089&postcount=9

Note that TRIM is supported by Windows 7 but it's not supported by windows XP and windows Vista.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_xp-hardware/is-trim-function-available-on-ssd-for-xp/27d92cab-ff21-4807-b5bf-8e89a9245b47?auth=1

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2334250

 

[clutchc]

That's what I mean by conflicting information. It wasn't that long ago I installed Win7x64 on my Gigabyte board with the ICH7 chipset. I know for sure I set SATA mode to ACHI and checked TRIM when I had it installed. fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify returned a 0.

Do you have the SSD now, or are you waiting to confirm before buying one? Which OS are you using?

 

[paolocasati248]

Also in various websites that I mentioned above is reported that ICH7 supports TRIM.
ICH7 doesn't support AHCI as stated at pag 42 of the Intel southbridge datasheet that I mentioned above.
You can control the AHCI support of your system looking at the drivers for storage in Start -> Computer Management --> Device management

as said in

http://superuser.com/questions/757936/check-if-my-ssd-in-runing-on-ahci-mode-inside-windows-7

At the moment I have a dual boot system (Windows XP and Windows 7 32 bit) on my GIGABYTE GA-G41M-ES2L. I have no purchased the SSD and currently I have an HDD that runs in IDE mode.

 

[ddaarreell123]

any update on this thread? i want to know if you have any errors? Planning to buy 850 evo on ich7

 

[paolocasati248]

I have just ordered an 850 PRO 1 TB but at the moment it is not avalaible in warehouse.
As soon as I will have received the ssd I will let you know everything

 

[ddaarreell123]

I bought Kingston Uv400 the cheapest! Its speed is good.. I just have a problem at my SMART at my bios because my motherboard saved the info on my previous HDD.. I put the mode into enhanced SSD's are good never get hot on temp. Even though my components and motherboard is old it got the support on modern SSD's i am planning to buy Samsung 850 evo it is just that i don't have the budget looking forward to watch the technology first and stick on in my Cheap SSD

 

[clutchc]

As long as you are stuck with SATA II, there's no sense spending lots of money for a faster SSD. The SATA II interface is your weak link for now.
If however, you plan on moving to a new platform in the near future, the faster SSD may be worth it.

 

[ddaarreell123]

As long as you are stuck with SATA II, there's no sense spending lots of money for a faster SSD. The SATA II interface is your weak link for now.
If however, you plan on moving to a new platform in the near future, the faster SSD may be worth it.

Yeah! i am planning to buy a LGA 1151 board after my board failes.. I just buy the cheaper SSD for my lack of budget and i want to monitor SSD's technology and wait for it to be much cheaper