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SSD on an older motherboard
Good morning or afternoon as the case may be,
I am fairly new to this forum so if this has been asked before please forgive. I have some experience with computers but haven't built one in about 4 years, at which time I built several for members of my family and myself. I had a PowerMac back many years ago. I was told by the Mac community then, that I would not be able to put a second hard drive in it, but being dumb and dangerous, I tried it, and it worked like a charm! I never tried putting the OS on it (MacOS 7.5 I believe it was), but I used it for every other thing. That being said, I ask now if I can use a a SSD on this motherboard (Asus P5N SLI SE Deluxe)? I had Windows XP Pro on it and went from there to Vista Home Premium 64bit, to Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit, which is what I'm running now (best Windows OS yet!). I've read that it has to be ACHI compliant but I can see nothing about that in the BIOS. This computer is running Windows 7 beautifully and whatever else has been said about it, it does definitely boot faster than Vista. Sorry for rambling, I am just an old retired coot that wants to mess around inside this thing again! As I said I know just enough to be dangerous!
Bottom line, can I use an SSD in this computer? Thanks for any responses, Frank