SSD's

[empip]

My 7 y/o dell Inspiron is Sata2 - Samsung SSD working fine - if trim is not supported, don't worry, Samsung have a useful piece of software (Samsung Magician) which is pretty good.
From here, halfway down page:- http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/minisite/SSD/global/html/support/downloads.html

You may be interested in this :-
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r27149957-ATA-ACHI-RAID-confusion
I found this after noting my old Dell does not have a direct bios ACHI mode, only ATA or Raid... Did the single drive raid setup, according to the dslreports guy 'koitsu' it has a built in ACHI mode, with some downsides ???

Ah ha, here we go :-

The first attempt I saw was poorly done, this is better, there may be others.

Don't be lulled into youthful flippancy - do use 'Magician' it contains some helpful stuff.

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[Alison556]

Thats brill empip - thank you.

Thanks all for your help - I was scared i was going to make a very expensive mistake.