SSD Tips Requested

Yeah get windows 7, you WILL want trim support

Disable auto defrag and hibernate. Disabling hibernate will free up the same amount of RAM you have. So if you have 4 gigs of RAM, disabling hibernate will free up 4 gigs on the SSD.

Since you are going to use them in Raid0 you will need to flash them to use garbage collect rather than trim. W7 can't pass the trim command through a raid setup.

Thanks for the helpful assistance. Especially having posted it in wrong location.

I also recommend following the tweaks in this thread to help minimize performance degradation: http://www.gskill.us/forum/showthread.php?t=913

Oh, and I also most definitely recommend becoming an active member of OCZ's message board. I'm an active member of G.SKILL's message board (but I stay in the SSD forum), and it has been a tremendous help - even for the the little things.

This was a good read

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/fo...58&postcount=3

Many of the tweaks listed here are automatically done by Windows 7. If it detects your SSD is fast enough, it will turn off Readyboot, Superfetch, Prefetch, Defrag, etc (they will still run on any other hard drive in the system).

You should not disable the page file, it causes issues with some applications - Dawn of War 2 & Photoshop are popular examples. Just leave it on your SSD. Microsoft has stated that it will not lower your SSD's lifetime by a noticable amount. It also seems much slower with it disabled. SSDs are excellent at using the page file.

If you are really paranoid the absolute minimum I would do is move the page file over to a mechanical hard drive... but it's much faster on the SSD.

The link for the ocz tweaks and the gskill are very good, i did a combination of both tweaks. To raid your vertex this the guide i used.

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/fo...ad.php?t=52912

The garbage collection as of now is still for OCZ idilinx SSD, even the supertalent that also works closely with idilinx does not have the garbage colletion on the 1819 firmware.