AHCI vs IDE

[kris77]

I have a Gigabyte UD3 board with an I7 860 and a seagate 7200.12 1tb HD.

What is the difference in ACHI and IDE mode for the sata connectors?

And which one should i be using?

Im running XP 32 bit right now but have Win 7 64 bit on the way. Plan on dual booting just in case i need the 32 bit for something.

 

[zalittle]

http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=499&Itemid
Here is the info you requested.

 

[sockeye3]

Thanks that helped. I had the same question.