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Configuring HDD in BIOS

post #1 of 24
11/14/09 at 12:56am
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Hello, i just replaced my seagate 250gig hdd with a corsair p128 ssd drive. my question is how do i configure this drive in the bios?? my seagate was set to AHCI not ATA, i am running just one drive so i know the raid option is a no go but what is the differance between AHCI and ATA and is one of the two better performance with a ssd drive.. not that savy with bios hdd configurations.. any help is appreciated...
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post #2 of 24
11/14/09 at 1:32am
use AHCI for the ssd drive

The SSD drive supports it - along with the Win 7 or Vista OS
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post #3 of 24
11/15/09 at 5:29pm
I think dave is correct. But to your general question what is the difference which is faster. ATA is also called PATA/IDE/UDMA/ATAPI. AHCI is SATA.

SATA has a higher theoritical bandwidth. The fastest PATA is 133MB/s SATA is 150MB/s Sata2 is 300MB/s SATA3 is 600MB/s.

There are some older SSD's that should be set to ATA so if you have issues try. I know nothing about your exact model so can't help on that. If you run a SATA drive set to ATA it will emulate IDE.

The AHCI allows some features that ATA does not support. Most notable hot swapping and NCQ.
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post #4 of 24
11/23/09 at 7:38pm
wow you guys had ssd drives. some day ill have them too congrats
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post #5 of 24
11/23/09 at 7:57pm
they are slowly getting lower in price
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post #6 of 24
11/23/09 at 9:17pm
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Originally Posted by dave-p View Post
they are slowly getting lower in price
yes slowly for sure. maybe next year this time i can afford one i hope
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post #7 of 24
11/23/09 at 9:17pm
Just got my new one today. Loading Windows now.
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post #8 of 24
11/23/09 at 9:18pm
congrats bro
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post #9 of 24
12/3/09 at 5:35pm
I am still debating on getting a new SSD to replace my current one. I have a $75 gift card for Dell.com so I may take the plunge sooner than later... Have Windows 7 Pro sitting on my kitchen table collecting dust too... just waiting on the SSD
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post #10 of 24
12/4/09 at 6:21am
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I am still debating on getting a new SSD to replace my current one. I have a $75 gift card for Dell.com so I may take the plunge sooner than later... Have Windows 7 Pro sitting on my kitchen table collecting dust too... just waiting on the SSD
so your still holding strong at 3ghz? that's awesome

me too!!!
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post #11 of 24
12/4/09 at 9:44am
Would you guys upgrade to a T9900 which consumes less power but operates natively at 3.06Ghz w/ 6MB cache? Only $340 brand new OEM.
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post #12 of 24
12/4/09 at 9:28pm
hmmmm

Wonder how it compares to the QX9300 then ?
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post #13 of 24
12/5/09 at 5:21am
I woulds say it depends on what your day-to-day needs are, how many apps you are running at one time. But we are talking about 3.06Ghz X 2 (T9900) and 2.53Ghz X 4 (QX9300) which can seem to be a big difference when one runs single app.

cheers ...
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post #14 of 24
12/5/09 at 10:05am
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hmmmm

Wonder how it compares to the QX9300 then ?
I can get it to OC higher than the x9100 I had. Too bad I cannot complete benchmarks at this speed.
LL
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post #15 of 24
12/5/09 at 10:32am
Why not? The board cannot handle it?

cheers ...
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post #16 of 24
12/5/09 at 12:11pm
Internal heat just starts too build up even when monitoring software says everything is fine.
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post #17 of 24
12/5/09 at 1:32pm
Notebook cooler and refrigerator won't help? Must be some bad chip programming then if internal heat can't be influenced by external cooling?

cheers ...
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post #18 of 24
12/5/09 at 6:29pm
An external cooler works fine. I bet I can get it higher if I were outside.
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post #19 of 24
12/5/09 at 6:39pm
Well there are reports of snow's presence in many states Pick one to your liking and in the near ...
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post #20 of 24
12/5/09 at 7:08pm
Yeah I'm in the Chicago area no problems there. It's in the 30s and it's considered a warm up.
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