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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: white_dove on July 26, 2010, 09:58:56 am

Title: AHCI vs SATA ?? Mobo Gigabyte GA EX58-UD5
Post by: white_dove on July 26, 2010, 09:58:56 am

Hello guys. Wanna ask something about AHCI - SATA.
After i read some topics about,i would like to give it a try. But i don't know if there is some major advantages ( read - write ... )
What do you think ? Should i try ?
I have Gigabyte GA EX58-UD5, Intel7 920@2.66 , 2 X WD 6400 AAKS, 3 GB DDR3.
Thanks

Title: Re: AHCI vs SATA ?? Mobo Gigabyte GA EX58-UD5
Post by: Dark Mantis on July 26, 2010, 10:01:48 am

Well basically you won't see much in the way of performance increase but AHCI will enable you to hot swap your hard drives if it is supported.

Title: Re: AHCI vs SATA ?? Mobo Gigabyte GA EX58-UD5
Post by: absic on July 26, 2010, 10:03:05 am

Hi,

My personal opinion is that unless you want to set-up a RAID configuration or are going to want to hot-swap hard drives then don't use AHCI.

There are very slight improvements in some areas of performance that you will discover if you bench test things but in reality will make little to no difference to your everyday computing experience.

Also, in Native IDE mode you will not need to add extra drivers during the OS install.

Title: Re: AHCI vs SATA ?? Mobo Gigabyte GA EX58-UD5
Post by: white_dove on July 26, 2010, 10:11:03 am

After i read this ,i wanted to change to AHCI,but if you say "no" , i leave the SATA.
http://www.differencebetween.net/technology/difference-between-ahci-and-sata/

Title: Re: AHCI vs SATA ?? Mobo Gigabyte GA EX58-UD5
Post by: Dark Mantis on July 26, 2010, 10:25:46 am

No I would agree, don't use it unless you have to.

Title: Re: AHCI vs SATA ?? Mobo Gigabyte GA EX58-UD5
Post by: white_dove on July 26, 2010, 10:30:54 am

Thanks a lot,guys.
I leave SATA.
Offtopic : i attahced here a printscreen,from Device Manager ( XP )
Do i have to uninstall this ? I never used RAID.
Is this ok if i uninstall Gigabyte Raid Configurer ??
http://img293.imageshack.us/content_round.php?page=done&l=img293/1001/raidcontroller.jpg&via=mupload

Title: Re: AHCI vs SATA ?? Mobo Gigabyte GA EX58-UD5
Post by: Dark Mantis on July 26, 2010, 10:43:32 am

Even though you are not using it I would just leave it alone. It is disabled anyway and if you uninstall it there is a fair chance that Device Manager will just find and install it again.