I wonder if too much information would be a bad thing - I think we overcomplicate this. A mainstream user will plug it into a machine install Windows 7 on it never change a thing and it will be massively faster than whatever they were using. The difference between IDE and AHCI is so insignificant that your average user isn't going to care about it. Your average user doesn't care where their page file is or what services are running.
And with the exception of alignment for performance which is handled automatically by the Windows Vista/7 setups and disabling defrag for drive lifespan which Windows 7 does automatically - most of this stuff is relatively insignificant. Shave a second off your boot time, free up ram which Windows will automatically free up as needed anyway, add a years life to a drive that will last 30 years anyway.
They're tweaks for the kind of people that like tweaking as much as they like the end result. I've spent far more time playing with this drive, posting on this forum, researching the technology because it interests me than I'll ever save by having made the thing which is 7 times faster than my hard drive, 7.1 times faster.
The only major concern really is that the drive can't yet look after itself. Trim doesn't work in raid, with certain drivers installed, older operating systems. Even when it is working it doesn't appear to be doing a good enough job. If Crucial do release a GC firmware as it has been suggested they are investigating then all that will go away.
I'm sure Crucial could do a manual but it would be pretty unusual for a hardware manual to cover more than is required to make it work. I don't think I've ever had a graphics card manual explain than as fast it will make my games, they'll go even faster if I turn off unneeded services and tweak the driver settings. My network card manuals never tell me that disabling Nagles algorithm in the Windows registry will reduce my online gaming latency.
Or perhaps a forum user can write something. I could - I've written quite about about SSD's in various posts around this forum and it could all be brought together in one coherent document. But I've written software manuals before and when you get down to it - it's a heck of a lot more a time consuming process than you'd expect. You have to make the assumption that people don't know how to use regedit or how to disable services. You need screenshots.
It's easier to answer individual questions as they appear, basing the depth of your reply on your perception of the users computer experience from the way they ask the question. And assisting or debating where necessary as the thread continues.
The one thing I think we could do with is a bit more of a useful FAQ than we have.
