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AHCI vs regular Native IDE
Hello.
I feel that setting your SATA harddisks to AHCI mode can be mandatory when you have a SSD drive. Doing some benchmarks on my Intel i7 shows that my SSD it's 50% slower running under IDE. Besides I am not sure but does IDE support TRIM commands?
But what about when you only have mechanical harddisks? Is it really better?
What about when your chipset is AMD? Do they have a proper AHCI implementation too? AHCI is an Intel thing right?
Should I go with AHCI always regardless having SSD drive(s) or not?
Opinions are welcome.