Should i use ahci with ssd

Mar 4, 6 4, Hello everyone 2 weeks ago i bought my new SSD due to hard drives death last month. The current setting is IDE. After the blue screen i changed the setting back to IDE. But what are the differences? If i change the setting will i get like 40mbps more? SkyNetRising Titan. Jan 4, 21, 1, 84, 3, AleksiDj52 :. SkyNetRising :. Jul 24, 8, 5 41, 1, Ok then its not guaranteed mbps? You must log in or register to reply here.

Storage 2 Aug 10, Question Changed partition size on my bootable SSD and now windows won't boot. Post thread. It offers additional features e. It is enabled just about everywhere else and having a system unexpectedly in a ancient compatibility mode would throw me for a loop. I realise this might be a personal thing. It need a floppy with drivers for that.

If you have the rare situation where one specific disk is slower with AHCI. In the part you quoted it merely states that it can actually hinder performance.

Not that it does, nor that it is significant. Improve this answer. Hennes Hennes What service would you be refering to in win 7? The msAHCI service. Set the value of the start dword to 0. Also to your point on the quote about performance impact , I am more concerned about the "even reduce the lifetime" part as this thing should scream compared to a platter drive. I can't find good sources on the net, but my assumption is that lifetime problems do exist for first generation SSDs.

But modern SSDs seem fine with heavy use, even if daily for five or more years. AFter that they get replaced anyway. Now, here comes with some problems. How to check the operating mode of your hard drive?

Please keep reading. Step 1. Step 2. At this time, you may need to reinstall your Windows on the SSD. Before the reinstallation, we recommend that you back up the drive in advance. Here you can use a professional tool - MiniTool Partition Wizard.

Free Download Buy Now. Connect an external drive to your computer and run the software to open its main interface. Select the hard drive that you want to copy and click on Copy Disk feature on the left pane. Step 3. Operating Modes IDE only has one operating mode.

SATA has data cable on right and power cable on left. IDE data cable is ribbon-like on the left. Follow Share Cite Authors.

Anonymous comments 3 December 18, , pm Thank you!