I have just swapped a 7200 RPM HDD with a Hybrid SSD (Momentus XT 500).
My BIOS has 3 options for Sata mode: SATA, RAID, AHCI
It has been in SATA mode, and my crystal disk mark speeds (at idle) improved slightly when swapping in the new drive.
So then I changed the mode to AHCI and made the changes in Windows to also use AHCI. After 3 reboots and everything seems happy, I tested it again at idle.
Some of the new tests are significantly lower than they were in SATA mode for the same drive.
SSHD with SATA mode:
90/89
30/35
.362/588
.509/.585
SSHD with AHCI mode:
77/65
29/31
.359/.622
.685/.610
Is something wrong here?
I didn't install any drivers because on both the Seagate and Asus (P5N7A-VM mobo) websites, there were no downloads for drivers or software for AHCI.
Is there something I should do or just switch back to SATA mode?
Other info:
I have 2 SATA HDDs in the computer used for storage, the hybrid drive is my new Windows Drive.
I would like more performance in gaming, probably for load times.
Win 7 x64
Thanks for any help
My BIOS has 3 options for Sata mode: SATA, RAID, AHCI
It has been in SATA mode, and my crystal disk mark speeds (at idle) improved slightly when swapping in the new drive.
So then I changed the mode to AHCI and made the changes in Windows to also use AHCI. After 3 reboots and everything seems happy, I tested it again at idle.
Some of the new tests are significantly lower than they were in SATA mode for the same drive.
SSHD with SATA mode:
90/89
30/35
.362/588
.509/.585
SSHD with AHCI mode:
77/65
29/31
.359/.622
.685/.610
Is something wrong here?
I didn't install any drivers because on both the Seagate and Asus (P5N7A-VM mobo) websites, there were no downloads for drivers or software for AHCI.
Is there something I should do or just switch back to SATA mode?
Other info:
I have 2 SATA HDDs in the computer used for storage, the hybrid drive is my new Windows Drive.
I would like more performance in gaming, probably for load times.
Win 7 x64
Thanks for any help