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02-17-2008
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| Vista Ultimate x64 | 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? |
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02-17-2008
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| | Re: 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" <inlivingcolour.34xuh1@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net> wrote in message news:inlivingcolour.34xuh1@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net... Quote: > > 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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02-17-2008
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| | Re: SATA hdd's Are the SATA cables to the drives connected directly to your MOBO or are they using an adapter of some kind? "inlivingcolour" <inlivingcolour.34xuh1@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net> wrote in message news:inlivingcolour.34xuh1@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net... Quote: > > 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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02-17-2008
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| | Re: SATA hdd's On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:31:58 -0600, inlivingcolour <inlivingcolour.34xuh1@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net> wrote: Quote: > >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? throughput in a multiuser environment, but for a single user computer, it won't make any discernible difference. |
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