Couple questions:
1. Is the consensus that to get proper Windows 7 TRIM support on AMD/nVidia chipset-based motherboards, you need to use the standard Microsoft PCI Standard Dual IDE Controller driver (i.e. either MSAHCI.SYS or PCIIDE.SYS)?
These threads seem to indicate, yes: http://forums.amd.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=383&threadid=126518&STARTPAGE=3&FTVAR_FORUMVIEWTMP=Linear
1.a. Do you know of any benchmarks comparing SSD performance when using the MS driver to the AMD/nVidia driver?
I found this blog post which is very detailed, but unfortunately a bit out of date (the fastest HD they test is a Velociraptor 150.)
http://expertester.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/ahci-vs-ide-%E2%80%93-benchmark-advantage/
1. Is the consensus that to get proper Windows 7 TRIM support on AMD/nVidia chipset-based motherboards, you need to use the standard Microsoft PCI Standard Dual IDE Controller driver (i.e. either MSAHCI.SYS or PCIIDE.SYS)?
These threads seem to indicate, yes: http://forums.amd.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=383&threadid=126518&STARTPAGE=3&FTVAR_FORUMVIEWTMP=Linear
1.a. Do you know of any benchmarks comparing SSD performance when using the MS driver to the AMD/nVidia driver?
I found this blog post which is very detailed, but unfortunately a bit out of date (the fastest HD they test is a Velociraptor 150.)
http://expertester.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/ahci-vs-ide-%E2%80%93-benchmark-advantage/