Yeah I Know you can change it now, still not fun IMO.
Every hard drive in a modern computer is connected to the system through a
storage controller. This controller typically can communicate with the hard
drive via a number of different interface protocols. For maximum compatibility
many computers are configured in the BIOS to use the older IDE interface
protocol to communicate with modern SATA hard drives. This setting is
acceptable for the average computer user but IDE lacks support for new
technologies such as native command queuing (NCQ) and hot-plugging hard drives
(add or remove drives without restarting the computers).
Intel invented a new storage controller interface known as AHCI (Advanced Host
Controller Interface) that supports these new technologies with modern SATA
hard drives. If you have a hard drive that supports NCQ, it is worth a try to
see if your disk performance improves with your workload.
On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 06:09:22AM -0300, Thane Sherrington wrote:
> At 01:11 AM 05/06/2012, Bryan Seitz wrote:
> >Should enable higher performance of your device, and changing it
> >later is a PAIN :)
>
> Actually, changing it later takes about five minutes in Win7 (not
> including drive download time) but it is generally easier to do
> during the install. Speed improvements range from negligible to
> significant, and I'm not sure why.
>
> T
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Bryan G. Seitz
