I just picked up and 120GB OCZ Revodrive for $220!

Keep in mind all SSDs are getting cheaper now that third generation SSDs are coming; not just the RevoDrive, but congrats!

If you like, you can test whether the TRIM function works when booting with my ZFSguru distribution. It should be one of two ways to restore performance on RevoDrive, as HDDErase cannot do this and Windows cannot either.

If you want to test this, give me a hint and i'll give you instructions.

I've been reading about using Linux to run HDDErase for a Revodrive, but sure I'm open to any new ideas. This is my first SSD so I'd like to learn as much as I can.

From my understanding, the Revodrive has an internal RAID 0 configuration so I'm just going to use a single drive with the on board RAID controller.

I've been reading through the OCZ sandforce boards http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/forumdisplay.ph...

And pretty much anything I find here, I bookmarked this one just in case
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/263187-32-revodrive

And these relate to the Revo's lack of TRIM
http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=22055
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?...

I would not worry about performance degradation. The Sandforce drives can take a pounding before they really show a significant performance drop, unlike the older drives that use controllers like Indillinx's one. Some specific workloads negate the benefits of the Sandforce controller's compression function and also the benefits this function has on retaining performance, but these workloads are mostly working with random data. The only time you're really going to write random data is when you do full drive encryption or when you use a program that writes random data just for the sake of it (like IOMeter).

TRIM isn't everything, and it certainly doesn't solve every problem on its own. In fact it only solves one problem.