How to setup SSD with new build win7 64?

[art2010]

Hi Everyone,

I'm building a new system. i7-970 on an ASUS Sabertooth X58 board and I'm going to buy an OCX Vertex 2 SSD (unsure of the capacity).

Is there a basic walk-through tutorial for setting this up correctly for a fresh build installed with Windows 7 64 bit?

Thanks

 

[Mfusick]

AHCI gives you some advantages, like hot swap and S.M.A.R.T. Performance is determined by the hard drive characteristics, so that part is moot.
I suggest AHCI for everything.

So even non SSD drives should have AHCI turned on?

Basically just go into BIOS and make sure every Hardrive has this feature enabled ???

Any reason not to do that?

 

[art2010]

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?79848-THE-BASIC-GUIDE-amp-FAQ-ABC-for-OCZ-SSD

Thanks fusick. I had seen that and read thru it a few times before. Very informative and I'm sure someone else will also appreciate it. I was looking for more specific info such as what cable I should attach where on the asus sabretooth x58, I think I'm good now..would like to hear the answer to your question tho..

 

[Deleted member 217926]

Yes even normal spindle type hard drives can benefit from AHCI. geofelt is right.

 

[Mfusick]

I have an Asus Formula Maximus II mobo and what sucks is in my bios I can only choose ACHI or RAID as an either/or option. So because my primary SSD 120gig vertex2 is ACHI I do not have option to put my two samung F3 1TB DRIVES in RAID 0 array as a 2TB drive.

If I realized this I would not have just bought two of these drives and perhaps just got a single drive.

Bad design by Asus🙁

 

[Zenthar]

I might be wrong, but perhaps you can set it to RAID, put your SSD as a single drive in an array and create a 2nd array with your 2 F3. If you have the latest BIOS and drivers, TRIM and other AHCI commands might still be sent to the SSD since it's single.

 

[Mfusick]

hmmm... would love to know this. Wonder how I could find out for sure

 

[Zenthar]

You could try to contact Asus support of find someone on this forum with the same MB ...

 

[Mousemonkey]

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