Hello!
I'm looking to get a new hard drive because I'm in need of some mega space for uni. I've actually spent the past 2 weeks fiddling with a WD 1.5tb drive I got but sent 3 back cus they were all making a grinding noise literally after only installing windows 7 on them. My question is for a 6gbs sata drive(which is what the WD drive was supposed to be) do I use AHCI or IDE? I have been setting it to AHCI but I don't really know if I need it. I might get a SSD in future but not for a while. What exactly does AHCI give me that's better then IDE and does it even perform better in AHCI? I'm starting to get paranoid the drives aren't working cus it's not actually changing to AHCI even though it says it is. I'm sorry if this makes no sense but I hope you guys can help!
I'm looking to get a new hard drive because I'm in need of some mega space for uni. I've actually spent the past 2 weeks fiddling with a WD 1.5tb drive I got but sent 3 back cus they were all making a grinding noise literally after only installing windows 7 on them. My question is for a 6gbs sata drive(which is what the WD drive was supposed to be) do I use AHCI or IDE? I have been setting it to AHCI but I don't really know if I need it. I might get a SSD in future but not for a while. What exactly does AHCI give me that's better then IDE and does it even perform better in AHCI? I'm starting to get paranoid the drives aren't working cus it's not actually changing to AHCI even though it says it is. I'm sorry if this makes no sense but I hope you guys can help!
). You may never use those features but it does no harm at all to leave AHCI enabled. I dont think it makes a difference to performance, sata is sata after all, but I could be wrong
