Is my P5B-Plus too old to support a SSD drive?

[Denis54]

I have a 3 1/2 years old ASUS P5B-Plus motherboard and would like to get a SSD drive.

Is it too old to support a SSD drive properly?

My CPU is a C2D E4300 overclocked from 1.8 to 3.0 Ghz.

I am a light user and I just want to get a SSD drive to see what kind of speed improvement I would get.

 

[Rifter]

does it support AHCI? if not dont bother with a SSD. If it does then hell yeah buy a SSD.

 

[supremor]

It should support it, my old P5B Deluxe did anyway not sure about the Plus but it probably does.

 

[Denis54]

My board supports ACHI. Does that mean that I should be able to use a SSD drive without problem?

If I set my board to ACHI, will I continue to be able to use my existing SATA drive (WD Caviar Black) as a second drive?

Will I continue to be able to use my existing IDE DVD Burner?

 

[imaheadcase]

Yes to all those.

However, if you switch to ACHI in BIOS, you will have to reinstall the OS. But i'm sure you was going to do that anyway. Remember to back up BEFORE you switch to ACHI or you won't be able to boot to windows.

 

[Emulex]

anything with sata will be better with ssd.

pata - if you can reliably mount it too.

latency goes way way down even with the most pathetic pata to sata bridges while random i/o remains the same. only benchmark queens and folks backing up their data will notice the (lack of) #'s.