Setting OnChip Sata Type in Bios

[Saleena]

Hi everyone,

I just have a quick question about setting up my HDD and optical drive in Bios. I'm building a pc this Thursday and have all my parts ready to go.

Motherboard is M4A89GTD PRO USB3

In the manual it says it is recommended to use SATA port 5-6 for my Sata optical drive and to set it at Native IDE

My 500GB Samsung spinpoint F3 HDD will be plugged in to port 1-4 but i'm not sure whether to leave it on Native IDE (default) or set it to AHCI. I'm only using this one single hard drive for now. Which setting do you recommend?

I tried reading about it but i'm still confused, Thanks for your help : )

These are my components:

Motherboard-M4A89GTD Pro usb3
AMD Phenom II 965 Black edition
CM Hyper 212 Plus cooler
G.Skill Ripjaws 2X2GB CL7
CM HAF 922 case
Corsair HX series 650W
Asus ATI Radeon HD 6850
Light on DVD RW
Samsung Spinpoint F3 500GB

 

[Saleena]

Oops, forgot to mention my OS will be Windows 7.

From what i've read, it looks like staying with the default IDE setting is the safest choice. Though Windows 7 is supposed to support AHCI, i don't know if my HDD does. I'll go with IDE, but any advice would be welcome, Thanks all.