Quote Originally Posted by jcool View Post
Yes, they do. Did I say they don't?
If so I need to edit that.
Oh no, I just didn't see it mentioned for the 2nd generation of SSDs.

No, it's for AHCI and Raid. If you set your board to Raid, but don't actually create any Raid volumes, the drives will runj in AHCI mode automatically.
It's true that TRIM probably works without that driver, but GC on Indilinx-SSDs doesn't. So it's better to have it installed.
True, GC probably needs the driver to run on XP/Mac/Linux and RAID. I didn't know it was for AHCI, but I think Win Vista/7 provide a default AHCI driver. If there is only one SSD, I do not think installing the driver is necessary.

I had an nvidia chipset and a driver was not required for the SATA controller. TRIM worked fine as long as I had AHCI selected in my BIOS and the same goes for my current 1156 setup.

Also, isn't GC only needed for those who have an OS/controller that doesn't support TRIM or if they are running a RAID setup?