Its an older laptop built in 2009. I only see the AMD SATA Controller available under IDE ATA/ATAPI. I am typing on right now as a laptop converted to desktop with the Intel SSD 320's. I put $600 in it to get it here (from XP to Win7Pro, 4gig RAM to 8 GIG, HDD to SSD320). To be honest it flies, but I am wondering how I can get TRIM support.
As a side note, I am a cost accountant turned IT guy. I am buying Intel 320 SSD's as replacement for my absolutely terribly designed (not by me) SATA Servers running really slow 7200 RPM consumer grade drives that fail often and are very slow. I know currently the motherboard on the Servers was built in 2009 but it freaking rocks and uses Intel SATA controllers. It just has crappy drives, processors and RAM, but it server 2003 R2 so its not really worth upgrading to 2008/RAM/Proc. As a SQL Server, now with the SSD drives it rocks. Using consumer Intel 320's. Unfortunately as RAIDED, I know they do not have TRIM support, but overall they are no longer a bottleneck concern for our ERP system.
Also as a side, I am having my local guy build using Intel motherboards. He was using Gigabyte, but I would like to make sure I can use Intel's RST and mix in RAID0 for my run-of-the-mill data entry folks. Its too bad I took his advice but they are using Intel Chip and Intel Z68 availability so they are not bad to use. But I will have him build new machines using Intel MB. I had him build my home desktop last week, and it supports TRIM.
Wondering...is RAID10 4 drives without TRIM likely to be faster than a TRIMMED non-RAID drive?