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February 17th 08, 05:31 PM
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SATA hdd's
I have 3 internal hdd's. Two Western Digital 500gb drives and one Maxtor 400gb drive. All three are SATA II. I just realized my BIOS are setup to run them as IDE. Should I be running them on SATA through the BIOS? Is there a speed difference between running them on IDE settings or SATA settings in the BIOS? -- inlivingcolour 
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February 17th 08, 07:12 PM
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SATA hdd's
I think the BIOS is enabling PATA for some other reason than your hard
drives. The SATA controllers are what are determining disk operations. Obviously, if the drives are not connected to an IDE controller then the PATA setting cannot matter to the hard drives transfers. "inlivingcolour" wrote in message ... I have 3 internal hdd's. Two Western Digital 500gb drives and one Maxtor 400gb drive. All three are SATA II. I just realized my BIOS are setup to run them as IDE. Should I be running them on SATA through the BIOS? Is there a speed difference between running them on IDE settings or SATA settings in the BIOS? -- inlivingcolour
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February 17th 08, 09:44 PM
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Are the SATA cables to the drives connected directly to your MOBO or are
they using an adapter of some kind? "inlivingcolour" wrote in message ... I have 3 internal hdd's. Two Western Digital 500gb drives and one Maxtor 400gb drive. All three are SATA II. I just realized my BIOS are setup to run them as IDE. Should I be running them on SATA through the BIOS? Is there a speed difference between running them on IDE settings or SATA settings in the BIOS? -- inlivingcolour
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February 17th 08, 09:55 PM
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On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:31:58 -0600, inlivingcolour
wrote: I have 3 internal hdd's. Two Western Digital 500gb drives and one Maxtor 400gb drive. All three are SATA II. I just realized my BIOS are setup to run them as IDE. Should I be running them on SATA through the BIOS? Is there a speed difference between running them on IDE settings or SATA settings in the BIOS? SATA AHCI mode provides NCQ and hot plug. NCQ could provide higher throughput in a multiuser environment, but for a single user computer, it won't make any discernible difference.
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