Hello guys, I will purchase Sandisk Extreme 120 SSD Drive and Im confused about compatibility issues. I have a P43 chipset (gigabyte p43 es3g), does it fully compatible with that drive ?( except its SATA II )
@xtreme512 wrote:
Hello guys, I will purchase Sandisk Extreme 120 SSD Drive and Im confused about compatibility issues. I have a P43 chipset (gigabyte p43 es3g), does it fully compatible with that drive ?( except its SATA II )
Sata II is not an issue. Your drive will just operate on that speed instead of the maximum Sata III speed. P43/ICH10 should be just fine.
and by “just fine”, that means it will get slower and slower by the day until it performs like the mechanical drive it replaced. Yes, I’m a bit bitter…
@bgood wrote:
and by “just fine”, that means it will get slower and slower by the day until it performs like the mechanical drive it replaced. Yes, I’m a bit bitter…
I have P45/ICH10 board (almost the same) and 120GB extreme. It works perfectly, no degradation in speed at all. Power-on hours: 368, Writes: 630GB, used ~60% of total capacity. I’m very happy with this device. I have not noticed *any* slowness in startup/operation speed.
Good data point, Squrppi, thanks. But I’m still going to be bitter until SanDisk *finally* releases updated firmware.
sounds like the new firmware should be coming in about a month.
@bgood wrote:
Good data point, Squrppi, thanks. But I’m still going to be bitter until SanDisk *finally* releases updated firmware.
You do understand that any SSD using the SandForce 5.0.1 base firmware will have the TRIM issue. As you can see in the articles at TweakTown, they have a new firmware version where TRIM works fine. SanDisk and all other manufactures must wait until SandForce officially releases the new firmware to them, and then SanDisk will adjust it and release it when they are done with validation. SanDisk did not cause the problem, SandForce did. It will be fixed soon.
