Originally Posted By: mlord
Now go into the Device Properties (System menu?), and verify that the reported firmware version is 1.30 or 1570. If not, time to reflash it.

Yup. That was the first thing I did. It came with 1275 and I reflashed it to 1.30.

Originally Posted By: mlord
But don't bother with the rest there.. even the sysadmins come across as teen-agers. smile

I noticed that...

Originally Posted By: mlord
Ensure that your Windows partition starts at sector 1024, rather than the usual 63 which incurs quite a performance hit.

I had no idea how to actually check what sector a partition starts at in Windows. I'm using Windows 7 x64 and the fdisk program seems to have disappeared. Booted off a Linux Live CD and Windows started the partitions at 2048.

Are you using yours with the SATA controller in AHCI mode? The firmware updater and the proprietory TRIM utility doesn't seem to like AHCI controllers.