Originally posted by: Drexl
Is NCQ worth it though? It seems that in some instances it's slower.
I have a couple of other questions:
1. What about connecting an optical drive to the same SATA controller as hard drives when the controller is set for AHCI? There doesn't seem to be a way to make some ports AHCI and some IDE, so I wonder if the optical drive will work or if it needs the port to be in IDE mode.
2. On the hard drive I will be using, I have a 40GB partition that I'm going to reformat and install Vista on, along with a 250GB+ partition for media, documents, downloads, etc. and I'm not using AHCI. Typically what I do is when I want to reinstall I just reformat the C: partition leaving D: intact. This time though, if I set up the drive for AHCI mode (pressing F6 for the driver) will it affect the other partition? I was just wondering if that second partition/data will be unreadable by the now AHCI-enabled OS.
1. What about connecting an optical drive to the same SATA controller as hard drives when the controller is set for AHCI? There doesn't seem to be a way to make some ports AHCI and some IDE, so I wonder if the optical drive will work or if it needs the port to be in IDE mode
Vista shouldn't have a problem with most drives. YMMV with anything else.Originally posted by: fpbear
1. What about connecting an optical drive to the same SATA controller as hard drives when the controller is set for AHCI? There doesn't seem to be a way to make some ports AHCI and some IDE, so I wonder if the optical drive will work or if it needs the port to be in IDE mode
I didn't think of this before, never tried it, does anyone know the answer? In a few days I will hook up two drives that support NCQ and a SATA Samsung Writemaster DVD. Can these all go on the ICH9R ports with AHCI?