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Hello
I have a western digital 5000AAKS that's 16Mb and 500GB (meh , but there was AALS , the 32MB version available , oh well) And about 1.5+ years old.
So I have been looking some stuff in bios and noticed AHCI mode and SATA port0-3 Native IDE mode , both from Intel ICH9R on P35 chipset.
So I already tried but the RAID and AHCI makes a BSOD. Obviously, either drivers aren't installed which is ,yes ,(but there are some software on windows running , some raid stuff but is not actually active) So it ran on normal legacy ide mode... But I want AHCI now and NO RAID cause I can't afford raid setup.
The other ICH9R command , SATA native IDE mode works well , heard about some XP automatically enabling this but It was always disabled (which meand for legacy OS) but I enabled it cause it looked safe. The system did not show any slowdown yet, actually a faster boot(or it's just my imagination?)
The other SATA controller is a GIGABAYTE SATA2 or some say JMicron controller, those are 2 purple SATAs on my P35-DS4 , the question is who is better , who is the real HARDWARE controller , and if nobody , who will be better in performance generally? Does this HARDWARE apply only to RAID?
A lot of threads have been versusing these two with RAID performance , but not AHCI and normal IDE. I did not received any useful info how is with AHCI and IDE.
So additionally , Will I have any advantage connecting my ONE drive to the Gigabyte 2 SATA that will run on AHCI or IDE , thus be better than ICH9R?
At the moment I have 1 HDD on ICH9R , Native enabled an working (but this feature is not on GigabyteSATA2) on the other STAT slot is an SATA DVD Drive. purple(gsata) is unsued as we speak. I do not know yet how to install these AHCI drivers , but from the looks of the some help and the mobo manual it's possible , but I do need to be assured if it's actually worthwhile. AND and also which is better , than installing the AHCI drivers on that one.
But I have no experience with this at all ,except that I learn this computerz thingz fast
On the other hand what had those threads over the web have to say ,that somebody talk how Gsata is useless , it's just a stripped controller with less support and supports old legacy IDE connector that is on the P35-DS4 (i have 2.1 ver) some say it's a copy of jMicron and that it its very unstable in linux to config with and so forth ...
others confirm it's a real hardware RAID as it's added for making the mobo brand RAID-READY
and it is therefore much faster in raid but overall being the same , plus a feature that can make 2 HDDs merge into a single one.
So features wise Gsata isn't so bad but what's on the non-raid performance side?
If gsata is better , will the AHCI function make it even better? Or will the AHCI function in ICH9R make same results. (heck switching controllers is easy , I just am not sure about ahci as it looks something more advanced)
I do know that these RAIDS needs to be preset before windows installs but i hope AHCI can be installed and enabled at any time?
the system format is actually not an option for me at the moment, no time , and tweaking my own OS custom settings all over again could last a month.
I have a western digital 5000AAKS that's 16Mb and 500GB (meh , but there was AALS , the 32MB version available , oh well) And about 1.5+ years old.
So I have been looking some stuff in bios and noticed AHCI mode and SATA port0-3 Native IDE mode , both from Intel ICH9R on P35 chipset.
So I already tried but the RAID and AHCI makes a BSOD. Obviously, either drivers aren't installed which is ,yes ,(but there are some software on windows running , some raid stuff but is not actually active) So it ran on normal legacy ide mode... But I want AHCI now and NO RAID cause I can't afford raid setup.
The other ICH9R command , SATA native IDE mode works well , heard about some XP automatically enabling this but It was always disabled (which meand for legacy OS) but I enabled it cause it looked safe. The system did not show any slowdown yet, actually a faster boot(or it's just my imagination?)
The other SATA controller is a GIGABAYTE SATA2 or some say JMicron controller, those are 2 purple SATAs on my P35-DS4 , the question is who is better , who is the real HARDWARE controller , and if nobody , who will be better in performance generally? Does this HARDWARE apply only to RAID?
A lot of threads have been versusing these two with RAID performance , but not AHCI and normal IDE. I did not received any useful info how is with AHCI and IDE.
So additionally , Will I have any advantage connecting my ONE drive to the Gigabyte 2 SATA that will run on AHCI or IDE , thus be better than ICH9R?
At the moment I have 1 HDD on ICH9R , Native enabled an working (but this feature is not on GigabyteSATA2) on the other STAT slot is an SATA DVD Drive. purple(gsata) is unsued as we speak. I do not know yet how to install these AHCI drivers , but from the looks of the some help and the mobo manual it's possible , but I do need to be assured if it's actually worthwhile. AND and also which is better , than installing the AHCI drivers on that one.
But I have no experience with this at all ,except that I learn this computerz thingz fast
On the other hand what had those threads over the web have to say ,that somebody talk how Gsata is useless , it's just a stripped controller with less support and supports old legacy IDE connector that is on the P35-DS4 (i have 2.1 ver) some say it's a copy of jMicron and that it its very unstable in linux to config with and so forth ...
others confirm it's a real hardware RAID as it's added for making the mobo brand RAID-READY
and it is therefore much faster in raid but overall being the same , plus a feature that can make 2 HDDs merge into a single one.
So features wise Gsata isn't so bad but what's on the non-raid performance side?
If gsata is better , will the AHCI function make it even better? Or will the AHCI function in ICH9R make same results. (heck switching controllers is easy , I just am not sure about ahci as it looks something more advanced)
I do know that these RAIDS needs to be preset before windows installs but i hope AHCI can be installed and enabled at any time?
the system format is actually not an option for me at the moment, no time , and tweaking my own OS custom settings all over again could last a month.
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