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ssd & foxconn 600a01-6lrs

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quartz0

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I have checked the SSD thread 😉

So with xp i need to buy a drive that has trim itself, has anyone used/does anyone know if the foxconn motherboard supports the AHCI ? not quite sure what to check in google for that.
 
What difference does it really matter is you are running XP and letting the drive handle garbage collection? Just be sure to get a drive that does fairly aggressive garbage collection or you will have problems from time to time.
 
thanks....ok I dont know exactly what AHCI is ? (just saw it mentioned) I know I need the good trim otherwise it'll drag after 6 months or so?....windows 7 is a possibility, but i'm looking for a minor hardware upgrade at the moment.
 
AHCI is a software interface to the drives that allows for more advances commands to be sent to the drive, like the trim command. Since XP does not support trim, you really don't need to worry about it. Pretty much all SSD drives support trim, so don't worry about it either, just focus on garbage collection. You might want to look for a deal on a Kingston V+ series drive.
 
quartz0 said:
thanks, sticky said kingston/intel/sandforce, i guess in order would be intel/kingston/sandforce ?

I'm guessing http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Kingston-...rdDrives_RL&hash=item23178bb56f#ht_760wt_1140 is NOT V+ ?
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The V100's have good garbage collection also, but not the Intel drive (although you can use there utility to manual trim it). There are a lot of Sandforce drives out there and they work well for the Mac people (no trim support in OS-X) so I would suspect they would work fine you XP also.
 
ccbadd said:
AHCI is a software interface to the drives that allows for more advances commands to be sent to the drive, like the trim command. Since XP does not support trim, you really don't need to worry about it. Pretty much all SSD drives support trim, so don't worry about it either, just focus on garbage collection. You might want to look for a deal on a Kingston V+ series drive.
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That's funny, trim used to run fine for me in IDE mode...
 
thanks, my xp drive at the moment has 12gb used, I won't have a lot more from it so with swap 32 seemed like it would do the job.
 
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