SSD on IDE

Troezar

Troezar

Troezar

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Just interested in your thoughts...

I've recently installed an Intel X25-M on my fiancee's laptop. It has transformed it with W7 installed. I did however find afterwards that there is no AHCI mode in the BIOS hence I'm stuck on IDE. I have the Intel toolbox installed and scheduled to run once a week.

Oh the drive came with the latest firmware. Anyone foresee any problems other than a bit of loss in performance?




EDIT: typos!
 
No you will be fine, it is still plugged into a sata port I presume (you havnt used a converter)?

AHCI just adds things like NCQ and Hot Swapping which doesnt really help performance in a laptop/desktop environment.
 
It's just plugged into the same point as the old 5400rpm drive. It's a Toshiba L300D, not high spec but the SSD has made a massive difference, pleasure to use it now. It was in danger of going out the window before lol.
 
Should be fine then you plugged it in using sata. The only limiting factor maybe the sata spec, you may have sata 150 which the ssd will saturate at times and sata 300 which it wont saturate. Either way as you say the difference will be night and day anyway :)
 
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