I just built my first computer, here are the specs:
PSU: Corsair 850AX, CPU: Intel core i7 2600K, RAM: 2x4 GB 1600 MHz Corsair Vengeance, HDD: Hitachi 7K3000 (Sata 6Gb/s, 7200 rpm), SSD: Intel 510 SSD (Sata 6Gb/s), VIDEO CARD: Gigabyte 560Ti, MOTHERBOARD: GA-Z68X-UD4-B3, COOLER: Cooler Master V8, CASE: Silverstone "Raven" RV02, OPTICAL DRIVE: Samsung SH-b123l
The HDD and SSD are connected to the 6 Gb/s SATA ports to the Intel Z68-chipset. When I start the computer (I haven't done anything at all yet, so there are no partitions or anything), I get this message:
"There are 2 SATA 6G hard drives installed.
Enable XHD for these 2 drives will gain more hard drive performance !!
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Allow XHD to automatically configure XHD for you?
Y: Yes! Please enable XHD for me.
N: No! Thanks and do not show this message again.
Any key: Continue...
Select option..... 8
<DEL> BIOS Setup <F9> XpressRecovery2 <F12> Boot menu <End> Qflash"
As far as I know, XHD is supposed to improve your performance if you have two HDDs by spreading the files across both, allowing the computer to load from both simultaneously, pretty much making the loading twice as fast? Thing is, since I have an SSD, it's already much faster than the HDD, so is there any reason for me to enable XHD? I'm planning to install the OS and all active programs to the SSD, and have the HDD for storage of files I don't regularly use.
Thanks in advance!