I think the good SSDs are pretty much past this write stutter problem. The SSDs in my EeePC are more akin to a cheap USB flash stick than one of those.

The most important caching aspect with these slow flash devices is the amount of write behind caching that is allowed. When the drive can't keep up with writes, you get stutter. Usually the OSs won't have much of that write behind allowed because it's a big data loss risk to keep data in memory. I'm not sure that this is something that can be tweaked.

win 9x has write behind disk cache (enabled by default) maybe his is turned off
theres an article about it here
http://www.accucadd.com/TechNotes/Cache/WriteBehindCache.htm

Davros wrote:

win 9x has write behind disk cache (enabled by default) maybe his is turned off
theres an article about it here
http://www.accucadd.com/TechNotes/Cache/WriteBehindCache.htm

Please note that the write behind disk cache feature is not disabled on my Win98 CF device.

Oh yeah the OSs do write behind, but not enough of it for these horrible flash devices.

If you use XP or later you can get a cache driver called "Flashfire" that essentially is a gigantic write behind cache. Of course if you lose power you can hose your partition (been there). On my EeePC this driver is a huge improvement but data loss is too likely for me.