Still haven’t figured out all the printer weirdness, but I did discover my normal.dot file got corrupted, but in such a way it wasn’t obvious. I would encourage everyone to make a backup of that!

Thanks for bringing back the comments, too.

TRIM is native to Windows 7, yes.

Regarding the 300 series vs. the 500 series, you may get slightly higher-grade chips in a 500-series drive, and I think the other difference is that there’s usable AES encryption on the 500–if your system supports it, which many don’t. If you don’t know you need a 500-series drive, then you probably don’t.

When choosing between Intel, Samsung and Micron (Crucial), I go on price because I can’t find anything about any of them that make them worth paying $10 more over one of the other choices. I could be persuaded to go with a Kingston or Sandisk drive as well, but they’d be my #4 and #5 choice (flip a coin as to which is which), and I’d want to save a pretty big chunk of money to go with them. I suppose I would lump Plextor into the same group. I have no firsthand experience with Plextor SSDs but the Plextor I know was never happy making second-tier stuff, let alone third-tier.

Machines run Win7 and I think TRIM is natively supported in that OS, isn’t it? If not, I’d install Intel’s trim utility.

BTW, is the difference between Intel’s 320 and 520 worth paying for?

I’m sticking with Intel more out of chicken superstition than anything else.
I’m currently using Seagate SCSI’s which are so old (How old are they?) the model numbers are in Roman numerals.