I installed windows 7 directly to the drive but i made one mistake i installed it while i had 3 extereals attached to my rig what caused the system to make an extra D: drive with 100mb backup thats for windows itself - it has a solid letter normally that drive or that partition is hidden but its not...
I tweaked the drive with the tool that came with it samsung magican tool it was easy to use while it wasnt able to disable the index thing
( so i did that manually ) Computer drive C : removed the index this drive for windows applyd and i was good...
The drive is running and was installed in AHCI Raid1 im a bit carefull with raid0 since i care a bit about the data stored on my C:\ drive
While you can use crystal disk to view the speed its mostly not correct i have seen my disk on 470 and then after a view minutes i had 503 and 507-Mb/s
its changing...maybee thats normal i dont know also its not recommended to do the tests to often since it is stressing the drive but if you buy one you also want to use it so screw that lol- ohh And if you use Tuneup make sure to update to the latest version since there was some trouble with other versions that did defrag your ssd...  >Drive is a Samsung 830 120G connected via Sata6
@ RND i also had lower speeds when i had the drive connected via the second slot ( Sata and not the first ) you can try to switch it to improve speeds i improved mine when i set it next to my Samsung HDD in Raid 1 before that i had speeds round about 350mbs switched it and now iam at 500 i also tryd the grey SATA6G input on my board thatr is made for SDD but for some reason it didnt work on that slot

Nice! Happy with the Samsung 830 so far?

At first I was undecided between getting a couple of Samsung 830 SSDs or Intel 520's, but I don't want to go near anything with a SandForce controller, even with Intel's name behind it.  The Samsungs are fast, have their own controller made in-house, and they seem to be at least as reliable as the Intel drives, if not more so (a lot of OEMs are choosing Samsung SSDs for their builds).

The only thing that can still put a dent on my plans is Intel's adding RAID 0 TRIM support to the next release of Rapid Storage Technology. v11.5 alpha release notes stated they would, but that was back in November 2011 and then... not a peep more.

That's where I am at, looking down the road at a future upgrade to an AM3/SataIII/DDR3/USB3.0 setup.(Hey, all 3's, lol) I'm still very happy with what I have now, if you don't count the almost 3 minutes it takes to get to my desktop. I shut my PC off more often now to save on energy bills and the boot times are a real drag. I have services and start-up programs at a minimum, so I think only an SSD will help much. Buying a SATAIII unit sounds like the smart money.

 it stands for Advanced Host Configuration Interface, the main reasons to use this are that

1 it allows drives to queue mange the requests (ie data request from track 20, 70, 30, 120, 50 would actually execute 20,30,50,70,120 saving stepping time (ssd not applicable as ALL data is electronically accessed no moving parts)

2 it allows hotswapping.

there are other reasons to use also, but these two are the main ones.

ide mode dates BACK to the days of 20MB ide interface hdds to replace the older MFM & rll controlloer/SEPERATE drive sets from the 80's & very early 90's

harpo

Anyone care to advise me as to how to enable AHCI, or send me a link to the info? 

AHCI (I think) is set in the BIOS.

usually it is set in the advanced section of the BIOS, again usually with the MODE for the sata ports(often the choices are ide/ahci/raid), but all windows before vista either expected ide mode OR you had to load drivers to access the hard drive to install the os, so on old hardware might not have been available.

harpo

Oh, bollocks....stripped the link....hang on.....

I've never been able to tell a performance difference (or even benchmark) between IDE and AHCI.

Brand new mobo in a brand new system I just built. But look as I might, I haven't been able to find it.

I'm not sure Biostar is the best mobo to have bought. If I had bought a better board, I could possibly unlock the 4th core on my triple core cpu.

I bought a mobo/cpu combo.

N68S3+

Difference is slight, probably not very noticeable in real world usage unless you are heavily multitasking. AHCI does support Native Command Queuing (NCQ), which IDE mode does not. This frees the CPU to do other tasks while the SSD has several operation in queue, for instance.

you may also switch your browsers download folder to another drive and maybe take a look how you can redirect the temp folder so it wont store unnecessary data on the c: drive i did something but don't remember it anymore