On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:31:58 -0600, inlivingcolour
<inlivingcolour.34xuh1@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net> wrote:
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>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.