#Ide to sata overloop how to

*You may need to install the IRST driver first in order to do the registry change from AHCI mode to RAID mode for Intel mobos.

#Ide to sata overloop how to

This tutorial will show you how to enable the different SATA modes after you have installed the OS. The reason why is Windows disables the drivers for the others that are not needed during installation. The issue with changing the SATA modes is they need to be enabled in the BIOS prior to OS installation doing so after you have installed the OS will disable the PC. There are four main factors of a RAID setup: striping, which spreads data across multiple drives, mirroring, which copies the data to more than one disk, space efficiency, which is how much of the total space is available to use, and fault tolerance, which is a measure of how well protected the RAID array is against disk failure.

RAID mode has all the advantages of AHCI mode. It is a means by which your PC uses multiple disks as if they were one, either to increase performance, safeguard against disk failures, or both.

RAID - RAID stands for redundant array of independent disks, originally redundant array of inexpensive disks.

So you basically get more performance from your drive over older IDE mode. NCQ allows the OS/controller to request up to 32 simultaneous requests at once. It can process so fast that the SSD could end up waiting for work. SSDs can process requests faster than HDDs. NCQ is one of the important features of AHCI for SSDs. It makes Native Command Queuing (NCQ) along with hot-plugging or hot swapping through SATA Serial-ATA host controllers possible.

AHCI - AHCI stands for Advanced Host Controller Interface.

IDE - Old, slower, it is simply a compatibility mode.

How to: Change SATA Modes After Windows Installation