X-25M write speed half of what is should be...grrrr

[safan80]

Actually, drive doesn't go "faster" with a RAID card, the card and cache just cover up crappy SSD random write performance.

There's write performance issues with most of the SSDs because the lack of onboard cache. why did you think the intel drive would be any different? the old standard hard drive had cache added to them for this very reason of freeze issues while writing. I bet the X-25 doesn't have any onboard cache and that's why there are "problems". look at the spec of the drive http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820167005

Sequential Access - Read Up to 250MB/s
Sequential Access - Write Up to 70MB/s

of course random writes are going to be crap.

I'm not using the drive in a raid setup skippy, it's standalone. No reason why the ICH10 can't handle a single SSD (far below bw saturation point).

you can use a raid controller in pass thru mode that would allow you to use the full speed of the drive without the need to setup a raid array and no the ICH10 can not handle it. If you had done your research you would know that.