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RE: Switch from IDE to AHCI with new platform - Recommended!

I have 286 albums with flac tracks on the 2.5" hdd (Hitachi 5K500.B) and scan time of music library during cMP start up is 25 sec. in IDE mode and AHCI mode with "Integrated Peripherals/SATA Port0-3 Native Mode" Enabled and Disabled - equally! The setting "Integrated Peripherals/SATA Port0-3 Native Mode" into "Enabled" in IDE mode lead to next:



...and into "Disabled":



...and "Enabled" or "Disabled" SATA Port0-3 Native Mode in AHCI mode lead to next:



From system board's manual:



About AHCI advantages (translation from russian):
"AHCI mode provides the greatest gain (some times) in cases when some applications simultaneously work with a hard disk. Increase by that more than is more distance between areas with which applications simultaneously work. By operation mainly one application with a hard disk the effect from operation NCQ will be minimum." (http://acerfans.ru/faq/358-tekhnologija-ncq.-stoit-li-vkljuchat-ahci.html)

Thus it is recommended to leave following settings:




Serge.
http://cmp2-mihaylov.narod.ru/

My cMP2: Windows XP SP2 Ru, GA-H55M-UD2H, i3-530, Corsair CM3X160C9DHX 1GB, system drive - Transcend IDE FLASH MODULE TS2GDOM40V-S FAT32, ESI Juli@, full linear PSU, NAS - WD My Book Live



Edits: 10/26/10

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