Installing Win XP SP3 on Intel X25-V

[sub.mesa]

Thanks. What would the benefits of NCQ be?

Without NCQ the SSD can only process one request at a time.

It wouldn't impact sequential speeds, but it would affect random I/O; especially random reads. You can see that in CrystalDiskMark and AS SSD as the random read qd=1 and qd=32/64 benchmarks would differ a lot with NCQ enabled; but would be roughly the same when using IDE mode which disables NCQ.

 

[Old Hippie]

Are you saying that if I follow the Tutorial for the OCZ drives the intel SSD will not be aligned correctly?

I didn't check all the different makes but if they're the same, they're the same.

Correct alignment may not get faster speeds but is intended to save your SSD from excessive writes and increase it's usable life.