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nonxcarbonx   11-13-2009 at 07:00:47 AM

I got a kingston ssdnow v series. Do i need any drivers for it?

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paperfox   11-13-2009 at 07:47:06 AM

no, it should be plug and play just like any hard drive. but the ssd's do have firmware that can be updated, might want to look into upgrading that, you could get some performance increases from it.

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Bronze Storage badge sub mesa   11-13-2009 at 01:29:10 PM

If you got Vista or Win7 set the SATA mode to AHCI instead of IDE, for maximum performance and features.

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nonxcarbonx   11-14-2009 at 02:54:46 AM

sub mesa wrote :

If you got Vista or Win7 set the SATA mode to AHCI instead of IDE, for maximum performance and features.



What does that do?

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Bronze Storage badge sub mesa   11-14-2009 at 03:11:27 AM

AHCI is the native protocol to access Serial ATA devices, and allows the usage of both NCQ (Native Command Queueing) and hot-swap functionality; which are not available if you pick IDE emulation mode. Windows XP cannot work with AHCI without additional drivers; but Vista and Win7 can and is the prefered method for Serial ATA devices.

For SSDs, the NCQ feauture allows performance benefits.

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nonxcarbonx   11-15-2009 at 11:41:12 AM

sub mesa wrote :

AHCI is the native protocol to access Serial ATA devices, and allows the usage of both NCQ (Native Command Queueing) and hot-swap functionality; which are not available if you pick IDE emulation mode. Windows XP cannot work with AHCI without additional drivers; but Vista and Win7 can and is the prefered method for Serial ATA devices.

For SSDs, the NCQ feauture allows performance benefits.



When I selected AHCI, I got a blue screen of death upon loading windows. Is there any way I can fix/configure this, or am I stuck without it?

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Bronze Storage badge sub mesa   11-15-2009 at 01:04:30 PM

What kind of Windows version do you use? Normally you set this before installing Windows. If you already installed windows you can leave the setting as it was, but you will probably lose TRIM support.

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Bronze Storage badge sminlal   11-15-2009 at 05:52:10 PM

nonxcarbonx wrote :

When I selected AHCI, I got a blue screen of death upon loading windows. Is there any way I can fix/configure this, or am I stuck without it?

Look at the "FAQ: Switching Storage Controllers w/o Reinstalling Windows" sticky topic at the top of the list of threads for this forum.

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expxe   11-15-2009 at 08:55:09 PM

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