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Windows 7: SATA Mode IDE or AHCI when you have a SSD drive?
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28 Jun 2012
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SATA Mode IDE or AHCI when you have a SSD drive?
Hi
I bought a ASUS P8H61-M LX Mother board for core i3 processor and a ADATA S510 6GB/s 60GB SSD
currently i have maxtor 250GB Hard disk and BIOS SATA mode is set to IDE.
To get maximum performance should i install windows on SSD ?
which SATA mode should i use in BIOS settings?
Regards | My System Specs |
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28 Jun 2012
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Windows 7 SP1, Home Premium, 64-bit |
Quote: Originally Posted by extremed 
To get maximum performance should i install windows on SSD ?
which SATA mode should i use in BIOS settings?
Yes.
AHCI. | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Ignatz Special; 4 speed manual gearbox; factory air conditioning; one of one
OS Windows 7 SP1, Home Premium, 64-bit
CPU Intel Sandy Bridge i5-2500, not overclocked
Motherboard Gigabyte H67A-UD3H-B3, full ATX
Memory 4 GB Crucial DDR3-1333
Graphics Card none; graphics are integrated on CPU
Sound Card onboard: Realtek ALC892; external: USB Behringer UF0-202
Monitor(s) Displays NEC 90GX2-BK 19" LCD
Screen Resolution 800 x 640
Keyboard Leopold Tenkeyless with Cherry Blue switches, USB
Mouse Logitech or Microsoft optical wired; either USB or PS 2
PSU Seasonic SS-560KM, modular
Case Antec Solo II
Cooling CPU: Scythe Big Shuriken; Case: Scythe Slipstream 800 & 500
Hard Drives System: Intel 320 Series SSD, 80 GB;
Data: Samsung Spinpoint 103SJ, 1 TB;
Backup: WD Caviar Green WD15EADS-00P8B0, 1.5TB
Other Info Power consumption of this system, including monitor: 68 watts at idle; 144 watts at full load
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28 Jun 2012
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Windows 7 Home Premium 32-Bit - Build 7600 SP1 Houston, Texas |
Quote: Originally Posted by extremed Hi
I bought a ASUS P8H61-M LX Mother board for core i3 processor and a ADATA S510 6GB/s 60GB SSD
currently i have maxtor 250GB Hard disk and BIOS SATA mode is set to IDE.
To get maximum performance should i install windows on SSD ?
which SATA mode should i use in BIOS settings?
Regards AHCI is what you want. Read this tutorial for step by step on installation SSD - Install and Transfer the Operating System | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Custom Build
OS Windows 7 Home Premium 32-Bit - Build 7600 SP1
CPU Intel Core i3-2120 3.30Ghz
Motherboard Asus P8Z68-V LX Intel Z68 Socket H2 ATX
Memory Kingston 4 GB DDR3 1333 mhz
Graphics Card Zotac GeForce 9400 GT 512MB
Sound Card Sound Blaster Audigy SE 24-Bit
Monitor(s) Displays Samsung Sync Master 940 = 19 inch
Screen Resolution 1440 X 900
Keyboard Microsoft Natural 4000
Mouse Microsoft Custom Optical 3000
PSU 500 watt
Case NZXT Apollo - Silver with Clear Side Panel
Cooling Three 120 mm Fans
Hard Drives OCZ Vertex 3 120 GB Sata 3 SSD ==
Western Digital 160 GB Caviar Blue 7200 RPM ==
Western Digital 500 GB Caviar Green 7200 RPM ==
Internet Speed AT&T Fiber Optic Wireless Network
Other Info 120 mm Blue LED Fan -- Three Blue LED Lazer Light Sticks
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28 Jun 2012
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Thanks for the quick response, in am following tutorial now
is it good idea to partition a SSD? | | My System Specs | | |
28 Jun 2012
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Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8 Florida in winter, Black Forest/Germany |
SSDs are only relevant for the OS and the programs. Would be a waste to use them for Data. AHCI has to be set in the BIOS and in Windows7. AHCI : Enable in Windows 7 / Vista | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number HP, Dell, Gateway, Toshiba - 4 laptops and 2 desktops
OS Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8
CPU from 1.6GHz Duo to i7
Monitor(s) Displays 2x HP w2207
Keyboard with trackball - no mices
Mouse Trackball mice
Hard Drives 5x HDD, 7x SSD, 12x Externals
Internet Speed DSL 6000
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28 Jun 2012
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#6 | |
Windows 7 SP1, Home Premium, 64-bit |
Quote: Originally Posted by extremed Thanks for the quick response, in am following tutorial now
is it good idea to partition a SSD? Not unless the SSD is large enough to easily hold all of your data as well as Windows. | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Ignatz Special; 4 speed manual gearbox; factory air conditioning; one of one
OS Windows 7 SP1, Home Premium, 64-bit
CPU Intel Sandy Bridge i5-2500, not overclocked
Motherboard Gigabyte H67A-UD3H-B3, full ATX
Memory 4 GB Crucial DDR3-1333
Graphics Card none; graphics are integrated on CPU
Sound Card onboard: Realtek ALC892; external: USB Behringer UF0-202
Monitor(s) Displays NEC 90GX2-BK 19" LCD
Screen Resolution 800 x 640
Keyboard Leopold Tenkeyless with Cherry Blue switches, USB
Mouse Logitech or Microsoft optical wired; either USB or PS 2
PSU Seasonic SS-560KM, modular
Case Antec Solo II
Cooling CPU: Scythe Big Shuriken; Case: Scythe Slipstream 800 & 500
Hard Drives System: Intel 320 Series SSD, 80 GB;
Data: Samsung Spinpoint 103SJ, 1 TB;
Backup: WD Caviar Green WD15EADS-00P8B0, 1.5TB
Other Info Power consumption of this system, including monitor: 68 watts at idle; 144 watts at full load
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28 Jun 2012
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Windows 7 Home Premium 32-Bit - Build 7600 SP1 Houston, Texas |
Quote: Originally Posted by whs SSDs are only relevant for the OS and the programs. Would be a waste to use them for Data. AHCI has to be set in the BIOS and in Windows7. AHCI : Enable in Windows 7 / Vista Does the Paragon Migrate program do all of the registry work in the tutorial above? | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Custom Build
OS Windows 7 Home Premium 32-Bit - Build 7600 SP1
CPU Intel Core i3-2120 3.30Ghz
Motherboard Asus P8Z68-V LX Intel Z68 Socket H2 ATX
Memory Kingston 4 GB DDR3 1333 mhz
Graphics Card Zotac GeForce 9400 GT 512MB
Sound Card Sound Blaster Audigy SE 24-Bit
Monitor(s) Displays Samsung Sync Master 940 = 19 inch
Screen Resolution 1440 X 900
Keyboard Microsoft Natural 4000
Mouse Microsoft Custom Optical 3000
PSU 500 watt
Case NZXT Apollo - Silver with Clear Side Panel
Cooling Three 120 mm Fans
Hard Drives OCZ Vertex 3 120 GB Sata 3 SSD ==
Western Digital 160 GB Caviar Blue 7200 RPM ==
Western Digital 500 GB Caviar Green 7200 RPM ==
Internet Speed AT&T Fiber Optic Wireless Network
Other Info 120 mm Blue LED Fan -- Three Blue LED Lazer Light Sticks
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28 Jun 2012
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Windows7 Pro 64bit SP-1; Windows XP Pro 32bit Grafton,IL |
Quote: Originally Posted by bigmck
Quote: Originally Posted by whs SSDs are only relevant for the OS and the programs. Would be a waste to use them for Data. AHCI has to be set in the BIOS and in Windows7. AHCI : Enable in Windows 7 / Vista Does the Paragon Migrate program do all of the registry work in the tutorial above? Everything but settting to AHCI in bios and Windows.
Those are two seperate operations. Easy in Windows.
Bios is usually easy if you read the motherboard manual first. 
Where to locate the setting instead of getting the manual after searching. 
Set AHCI in bios then in Windows. | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Hopalong/ Godzilla
OS Windows7 Pro 64bit SP-1; Windows XP Pro 32bit
CPU Intel Core i7-870 Lynnfield 2.93GHz LGA 1156 95W Quad-Core
Motherboard ASUS P7P55D-E PRO
Memory 8GB@1400MHz Crucial Ballistix DDR3-1600 4x2GB
Graphics Card ASUS ENGTX460 DirectCU/2DI/1GD5 1GB 256-bit GDDR5
Sound Card VIA Onboard
Monitor(s) Displays Asus VS248H-P 24"; Samsung SyncMaster 941BW 19"ws
Screen Resolution 1920x1080; 1440x900
Keyboard Logitech K-320
Mouse Kensington
PSU COOLER MASTER Silent Pro RS850-AMBAJ3-US 850W Modular
Case COOLER MASTER HAF 932 RC-932-KKN5-GP Black
Cooling Scythe "Mugen-2 Rev.B" (2 ScytheKaze-Jyuni PWM fans)
Hard Drives Samsung 830 120GB SSD
Intel 320 120GB SSD
Western Digital Caviar Black WD7501AALS 750GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s
Western Digital Caviar Black WD6401AALS 640GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s
Antivirus Avast Inernet Suite
Browser IE 9 ; Chrome
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28 Jun 2012
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Windows 7 Home Premium 32-Bit - Build 7600 SP1 Houston, Texas |
Glad you are there Hoppy. I am going to be doing this over the weekend. Is this the order? Install SSD, run Paragon, change to AHCI in Windows then shut down, change boot order and change to AHCI in bios. is that right? Thanks, == After looking at the tutorial WHS has above, do I need to do all of the registry hacks to change to AHCI in Windows? | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Custom Build
OS Windows 7 Home Premium 32-Bit - Build 7600 SP1
CPU Intel Core i3-2120 3.30Ghz
Motherboard Asus P8Z68-V LX Intel Z68 Socket H2 ATX
Memory Kingston 4 GB DDR3 1333 mhz
Graphics Card Zotac GeForce 9400 GT 512MB
Sound Card Sound Blaster Audigy SE 24-Bit
Monitor(s) Displays Samsung Sync Master 940 = 19 inch
Screen Resolution 1440 X 900
Keyboard Microsoft Natural 4000
Mouse Microsoft Custom Optical 3000
PSU 500 watt
Case NZXT Apollo - Silver with Clear Side Panel
Cooling Three 120 mm Fans
Hard Drives OCZ Vertex 3 120 GB Sata 3 SSD ==
Western Digital 160 GB Caviar Blue 7200 RPM ==
Western Digital 500 GB Caviar Green 7200 RPM ==
Internet Speed AT&T Fiber Optic Wireless Network
Other Info 120 mm Blue LED Fan -- Three Blue LED Lazer Light Sticks
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28 Jun 2012
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#10 | |
Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8 Florida in winter, Black Forest/Germany |
Quote: Originally Posted by bigmck Glad you are there Hoppy. I am going to be doing this over the weekend. Is this the order? Install SSD, run Paragon, change to AHCI in Windows then shut down, change boot order and change to AHCI in bios. is that right? Thanks, == After looking at the tutorial WHS has above, do I need to do all of the registry hacks to change to AHCI in Windows? You got the right sequence. The one and only registry hack for AHCI is simple if you follow BFK's tutorial. | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number HP, Dell, Gateway, Toshiba - 4 laptops and 2 desktops
OS Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8
CPU from 1.6GHz Duo to i7
Monitor(s) Displays 2x HP w2207
Keyboard with trackball - no mices
Mouse Trackball mice
Hard Drives 5x HDD, 7x SSD, 12x Externals
Internet Speed DSL 6000
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