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I've been involved in a thread on the Corsair forum about the Microsoft AHCI driver versus the AMD AHCI driver and SSD performance.
It was a question I asked on here a while back with little or no response. I thought I'd post the link on here in case others find it useful.
http://forum.corsair.com/v3/showthread.php?t=92885
That's interesting. There was a similar thread here not long ago. http://forums.hexus.net/hexus-hardwa...ld-know-3.html
There is some comparisons there using AS-SSD.
I'd avoid using the AMD drivers and stick with the Microsoft. TRIM commands are important for the long term importance of the drives, and at least when Windows 7 launched it wasn't clear if the Intel or AMD drivers would block TRIM commands. As a result I've avoided them since.
My information may well be out of date though, I've not kept up with the cutting edge of SSDs for about a year - for all I know AMD and/or Intel may have clearly said that they don't block, but I've not seen it.