Quote Originally Posted by saint-francis View Post
This is an amazing amount of responses to the OP.

Have you tried using a board NOT! made by DFI? I have tried close to one dozen SSD's (that's 12 F'ing disks!) on a DFI board and they never....ever....worked right.

Maybe the board was bad? I thought so too. I replaced it. And replaced it. And replaced it. Nothing helped...... Until
I got a board made by some one else. Even DFI tech support told me I was right in buying a board from someone else. I had to deal with RMA from more than one company before I realized that it wasn't RAM (which I RMA'd) or the CPU (which I replaced!!!) or the PSU (which I tested against 5 other units) or, so I though, the mobo, which I replaced more than once with a DFI board.

My personal conclusion is that DFI boards will get the highest overclocks you know, but the stability is worse than awful with SSD's.
I'm actually thinking it might be the Motherboard because someone pointed out to me on a previous BIOS update for the DFI T3EH8 was for compatibility with SSD drives.
"Major Reasons of Change:
1. Fixed system lagged issue.
2. Fixed some SSD device can’t install OS issue."

That was listed for an old Beta BIOS, but I'd say you might be right that it's probably a compatibility issue with the DFI Motherboard. What kind of problems have you had with SSD drives and on what DFI board?

Anyone know how would I go about telling DFI about the issue to see if it can be fixed via a BIOS update?


Quote Originally Posted by Anvil View Post
Ice,

In order to get TRIM on your SSD in RAID mode you have to install RST 9.6.

Based on the number of ports I would expect the ICH ports to be Green and the yellow ones to be some sort of extra bonus controllers.
Keep the SSD on the ICH, the DVD should work on both the green and yellow ports, it shouldnt make any difference whether keeping it on the ICH or not.
(I've got my DVD installed on one of the "bonus" controllers, it's working just fine)
The same goes for the eSATA front panel connector, it shouldn't matter where you connect it.
Thanks for the info. I just installed the Rapid Storage Technology 9.6 driver. How do I go about checking to see if Trim is working properly?

So just to clarify running a single drive in RAID mode should be very similar to AHCI mode? What are the actual differences if any between RAID mode and AHCI with a single drive?