Just order the OCZ Vertex 2E 60GB. Is there anythink i have to setup in windows/bios, or is it just plug in and loads windows 7. Do i need a ssd controller?
After nearly a week of google search and reading on the forum, I finally grabbed the bull by the horn last night and proceeded with the installation of my new Vertex 2 60gb.
1. Downloaded all important motherboard drivers & software to USB drive
2. unwrapped the drive and connected it to my secondary PC as a spare
3. used the OCZ firmware update tool to flash from 1.11 to the latest 1.24
4. disconnected & tranfered to my main system(see sig.)
5. Disconnected all other drives and connected only vertex to 1st SATA port
6. loaded default BIOS settings and enabled AHCI
7. loaded windows 7 64bit disk & let windows do its thing
8.on completion, installed intel Rapid Storage(the lastest on Intel site)
9.installed Nod32 64bit antivirus
10. connected to internet & loaded all required windows updates
11.reconnected my 2 storage drives on SATA port 2 & 3
12.verified that Trim is functional
13.installed office 2010
14.minor tweaks (moved my document,music, video, downloads etc from c:\to D:\; disabled hibernation, prefetch, sleep mode, drive indexing. Enabled advanced power mode
15. Installed all other apps.
16. carried out: Atto benchmark and results Max Read: 288MB/sec
Max Write: 273MB/sec
WEI: 7.7 for Vertex2 and 7.4 for the rest
System is on stock speed and seem very stable & smooth (touch wood...)
Might attempt some mild overclock next week if no problem crops up...