AHCI

[TamLin]

Hi,

Apologise for noob question but i dont quite undrestand wikipedia definition of AHCI.

In my BIOS setup, under HDD controller i have 2 options: SATA IDE and SATA AHCI/RAID.
I run my single SATA drive on option 1 as default, now if i change to option 2 would i benefit on speed or anything else?
What is practically that AHCI ?

 

[tecmo34]

For a mechanical drive, you will see little benefit outside of "hot swap" abilities where you can plug in and unplug SATA devices without re-booting for the OS to recognize them. You won't really see a major benefit from NCQ, like a SSD does.

I wouldn't make the switch unless you need "hot swap" feature... IMO