Kingston 64GB SSDnow v series questions

[Shadowmeph]

I broke down and bought the Kingston 64GB SSDnow v series I am new to ssd drives so I am not sure what to expect right now since I don't have the mounting utilities I am going to try and figure out how to mount this then install my OS on in, but I do have a question about this and all ssd drives.
is there some type of setup I need to do? I have been reading other posts about speeds and people tweaking so I am wondering will I need to do any of this to get the most out of this drive?

[Delavan]

One of the issues with Kingston is that their website has no info on SSD, or very not a lot...

if you visit OCZ's forums and look for SSD optimization you're golden

[SugarJ]

Disconnect your other drives, connect your SSD, install Windows 7, reconnect other drives. Use AHCI mode.

Tweak as suggested here: Windows 7 - Ultimate SSD Speed Tweaks

[AkG]

Yup. SugarJ got it right. Though the BIG one is AHCI mode. Without that windows cant pass the TRIM command on to the drive, thus it can potentially get slow (and at the very least use more cell life as it will have to rely on its self cleaning maintenance routines, colloquially refereed to as Idle Time Garbage Collection, to keep the drive from entering a degraded mode).
You have to disconect the other drives from your system as win 7 ALWAYS makes a 100mb partition on Drive 0....even if that is not the drive you are installing windows to! IF that drive dies or is removed....your OS is toast. ;)

The tweaks....are just that. They really arent needed (besides making sure defrag is off) but they do allow you to wring every bit of performance out of the drive.

[Shadowmeph]

How to I Turn on AHCI mode ?

[AkG]

Go into your bios. Change it from IDE to AHCI, before you install your OS. ;)

[Shadowmeph]

ok did all that but now when ever I boot up it goes to a screen that says something about AHCI then it lists my DVD and the SSD drive is there a way to turn off that screen becasue that in itself is a delay when booting hehe