Got it to work with acronis! Thx pal. Last (hopefully) question. What items do I need to tweak to ensure long life of the SSD? I heard about turning off defrag (do they mean automated maintenance?). What about trim and how do I do it? If I get another SSD should I put it raid with this one (and what level of raid) and how does that effect trim? Sorry, not really one question.

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Got it to work with acronis! Thx pal. Last (hopefully) question. What items do I need to tweak to ensure long life of the SSD? I heard about turning off defrag (do they mean automated maintenance?). What about trim and how do I do it? If I get another SSD should I put it raid with this one (and what level of raid) and how does that effect trim? Sorry, not really one question.

 
Turn off defragmentation not only from the schedule for this SSD but also never defrag it manually. TRIM is automatically activated once you do a new Windows Experience Index on the system. All relatively related switches for that are automatically turned on by the OS once it detects the new SSD. Just go into the properties of the 'My Computer' and update your WEI.
 
TRIM and the garbage collection is done by the OS. It will manage the trash files and other items. When you add another SSD into a RAID 0 configuration (or any other RAID configuration you seem to want to do) it won't be affected as that is for the OS on the drives which are detected rather than any integral part of a RAID configuration.
 
I would also suggest manually setting a swap file to around 1gb-2gb fixed size on the system SSD rather than allowing the OS to automatically size it. This will not only reduce the amounts of sequential writes but with SSD performance you really don't need a large traditional swapfile.
 
For more generic Windows 7 tweaks please refer to this section of the OCZ SSD ABCs.