Hi,
I've tried to find an answer to my question by searching, and while several discussions have come up, they all deal with systems containng more than one HDD or one HDD and one SSD.
I've bought a WD1002FAEX caviar black 1TB 64MB cache 7200rpm, sata3. I do not have any other hard drives and do intend to buy an SSD in several months when prices further decline, but for the coming 4 months the single WD will be woking solo.
The question that rises is, should I config it as AHCI or IDE and what do i stand to gain or lose from either?
I will be running Windows 7 with a Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 motherboard.
In addition I will be using a rather cheap LG DVD RW - not sure if this influences the decision in any way.
I'd also like to know whether the decision is influenced in the event that I do purchase an SSD. As I see it, if i were to purchase an SSD i'd most probably want the OS to be located on it so that I boot from SSD, which would mean that either way I will end up reinstalling windows.
I guess the simplest way to ask this questions is: What are the pros and cons of of IDE vs AHCI in a system with 1 HDD and how does this change when including an additional SSD.
I'm new to this and this is my first build so I'm trying to get it all right however it's a steep learning curve. I extremely appreciate this forum and it's members for the helpful spirit and the immese amount of knowledge offered.
Thanks.
I've tried to find an answer to my question by searching, and while several discussions have come up, they all deal with systems containng more than one HDD or one HDD and one SSD.
I've bought a WD1002FAEX caviar black 1TB 64MB cache 7200rpm, sata3. I do not have any other hard drives and do intend to buy an SSD in several months when prices further decline, but for the coming 4 months the single WD will be woking solo.
The question that rises is, should I config it as AHCI or IDE and what do i stand to gain or lose from either?
I will be running Windows 7 with a Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 motherboard.
In addition I will be using a rather cheap LG DVD RW - not sure if this influences the decision in any way.
I'd also like to know whether the decision is influenced in the event that I do purchase an SSD. As I see it, if i were to purchase an SSD i'd most probably want the OS to be located on it so that I boot from SSD, which would mean that either way I will end up reinstalling windows.
I guess the simplest way to ask this questions is: What are the pros and cons of of IDE vs AHCI in a system with 1 HDD and how does this change when including an additional SSD.
I'm new to this and this is my first build so I'm trying to get it all right however it's a steep learning curve. I extremely appreciate this forum and it's members for the helpful spirit and the immese amount of knowledge offered.
Thanks.