Quote Originally Posted by Powerfull View Post
Glen,

I never tried the IDE mode with SSDs but with this board in raid mode (even with 1 SSD, no raid array) the speed is max out Write:270MB/s Read:280MB/s with Atto or Cristall Disk Mark.
I suggest that you try AHCI or RAID mode. The best option is RAID mode even with a sigle drive because you can use intel RST drivers and it is as good as AHCI performance and you can build a RAID array in the future.
To turn in raid mode you do not need to reinstall the OS, there is a registry trick (win 7) and then you switch to raid mode in the bios and the OS boot fine.

If your SSD speed is not max out it is not due to the board but to the settings, have a try with the Raid mode (even for sigle drive).

Good luck.
I'm only getting 240/240MB/s in IDE really for what I use the computer for its fine. But if you have a link to the registry trick for Win7 I would like to try, but it seems with this mother board you have to set all your harddrives to ACHI/Raid or IDE and I have 6 harddrives hooked up to this MB all IDE and full of imprtant dataso I don't think ACHI/raid is a possibility to set it for one harddrive. I also still have to dual boot to WinXP for some programs which is on a separate harddrive.Thanks for your insight.