thanks, have already decided not mess with dual boot which would
require leaving the bios at IDE. What I should do if I really felt I
needed to is just build another box and KVM the things for dual boot :-)
decided to stop sitting on the fence and just froggy hop. Will loose
some programs I like and use but I am sure new ones can be found.
thanks again
fp
At 09:12 AM 6/5/2012, Bryan Seitz Poked the stick with:
Yeah I Know you can change it now, still not fun IMO.
Every hard drive in a modern computer is connected to the system
through a storage controller. This controller typically can
communicate with the hard drive via a number of different interface
protocols. For maximum compatibility many computers are configured
in the BIOS to use the older IDE interface protocol to communicate
with modern SATA hard drives. This setting is acceptable for the
average computer user but IDE lacks support for new technologies
such as native command queuing (NCQ) and hot-plugging hard drives
(add or remove drives without restarting the computers).
Intel invented a new storage controller interface known as AHCI
(Advanced Host Controller Interface) that supports these new
technologies with modern SATA hard drives. If you have a hard drive
that supports NCQ, it is worth a try to see if your disk performance
improves with your workload.
On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 06:09:22AM -0300, Thane Sherrington wrote:
> At 01:11 AM 05/06/2012, Bryan Seitz wrote:
> >Should enable higher performance of your device, and changing it
> >later is a PAIN :)
>
> Actually, changing it later takes about five minutes in Win7 (not
> including drive download time) but it is generally easier to do
> during the install. Speed improvements range from negligible to
> significant, and I'm not sure why.
>
> T
>
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