SSD on an older board with no AHCI?

[itakey]

I have an older setup with the Abit IP35-E and would like to put an SSD drive into it. I just scored a Kingston Hyper S sh103s3 120GB for a great price and want to consider putting it into this machine.

I see that this board has an ICH9 chipset which doesn't include RAID/AHCI.

I read elsewhere that it should still work great and will be a big improvement over a mechanical drive, but won't be as fast as it could (Run about 1/2 speed).

Will TRIM still work properly?

I'm not well versed on SSD and the technology so all feedback is appreciated.

 

[Sheep221]

I think everything should be fine, only the speed will be decreased

 

[itakey]

I think everything should be fine, only the speed will be decreased

Must I make any adjustments or settings so the drive can use the TRIM feature, or whatever that function is that manages and monitors the reads/writes? Sorry if my terminology is off.

 

[Sheep221]

TRIM is reliant on OS I think, it works in Windows 7 and Windows server 2008 R2

 

[postmortemIA]

Ich9r has ahci + raid, and ich9 should still have ahci. Ich7 is one that does not have either.

 

[KingerXI]

Follow most of these suggestions... but that is with ANY SSD with ANY motherboard with ANY operating system.
http://www.tech-forums.net/forums/f128/ssd-tweak-guide-236563/

 

[Arcanedeath]

I have an older setup with the Abit IP35-E and would like to put an SSD drive into it. I just scored a Kingston Hyper S sh103s3 120GB for a great price and want to consider putting it into this machine.

I see that this board has an ICH9 chipset which doesn't include RAID/AHCI.

I read elsewhere that it should still work great and will be a big improvement over a mechanical drive, but won't be as fast as it could (Run about 1/2 speed).

Will TRIM still work properly?

I'm not well versed on SSD and the technology so all feedback is appreciated.

the Abit Ip35-E (I had one with a Xeon 3060) did include the ICH9R and does support achi / raid with the correct bios it's a p35 chipset board that was the midrange board below the ip35-e pro. check your bios & make sure it's the latest one.

 

[VirtualLarry]

the Abit Ip35-E (I had one with a Xeon 3060) did include the ICH9R and does support achi / raid with the correct bios it's a p35 chipset board that was the midrange board below the ip35-e pro. check your bios & make sure it's the latest one.

Nope. IP35 (no "-E") had ICH9R. IP35-E only had ICH9, no "R". I don't think that the IP35-E had AHCI setting in the BIOS. It certainly didn't have RAID.

Oh, and there was no "IP35-E Pro". Only an "IP35 Pro".

Edit: OP, you'll be fine. As long as you use an OS with TRIM (Windows 7/8), then you should be fine. AHCI implies support for NCQ, which can improve SSD multi-threaded performance, but it's not a big deal. Even at QD=1, an SSD should be noticeably faster than a HDD.

 

[Arcanedeath]

Nope. IP35 (no "-E") had ICH9R. IP35-E only had ICH9, no "R". I don't think that the IP35-E had AHCI setting in the BIOS. It certainly didn't have RAID.

Oh, and there was no "IP35-E Pro". Only an "IP35 Pro".

Edit: OP, you'll be fine. As long as you use an OS with TRIM (Windows 7/8), then you should be fine. AHCI implies support for NCQ, which can improve SSD multi-threaded performance, but it's not a big deal. Even at QD=1, an SSD should be noticeably faster than a HDD.

my apolgies got the E and non E confused but the E does have ICH 9 which does support ACHI
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813127031

 

[itakey]

Nope. IP35 (no "-E") had ICH9R. IP35-E only had ICH9, no "R". I don't think that the IP35-E had AHCI setting in the BIOS. It certainly didn't have RAID.

Oh, and there was no "IP35-E Pro". Only an "IP35 Pro".

Edit: OP, you'll be fine. As long as you use an OS with TRIM (Windows 7/8), then you should be fine. AHCI implies support for NCQ, which can improve SSD multi-threaded performance, but it's not a big deal. Even at QD=1, an SSD should be noticeably faster than a HDD.

Thanks for confirming, I'm going to go ahead and give it a go and see how it does.
In Windows 7 I take it there is a spot where I am able to enable TRIM, or is it automatic?