Suresh Madan Posted August 27, 2014 Report Share Posted August 27, 2014 HI All, The question may be redundant with todays's newer OS and SSDs. I seem to recall reading here on the forum that its still preferable to setup SSDs in IDE Mode instead of the AHCI Mode. Is there still some merit to doing this at all ? Or am I mistaken ? Regards, Suresh Madan DynaMix Media New Delhi, India 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Fahl Posted August 27, 2014 Report Share Posted August 27, 2014 Shouldn't matter as far as WATCHOUT is concerned. Where did you see the hint about IDE mode? Whatever works best for the computer/OS should be best for WATCHOUT too, as far as I can tell. Mike 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member sanjaypatel Posted September 15, 2014 Member Report Share Posted September 15, 2014 AHCI is faster. and new technology. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonas Dannert Posted September 16, 2014 Report Share Posted September 16, 2014 And the next step will be NVMHCI, to make things easier...and faster! Not too far away, though, needs Windows 8.1, at the moment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVM_Express http://www.nvmexpress.org/ http://komposter.com.ua/documents/NVMe-and-AHCI-as-SATA-Express-Interface-Options.pdf Still confused, at a higher level... /jonas 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Leong Posted September 17, 2014 Report Share Posted September 17, 2014 And the next step will be NVMHCI, to make things easier...and faster! Not too far away, though, needs Windows 8.1, at the moment: Er...does not need Win 8.1. I'm using Win 7 and have a Plextor M.2 x2 M6e PCIe 128GB SSD on an AS Rock Z97 Extreme 6 motherboard which has 2 slots for M.2 (one at x4). The Plextor works in either slot under AHCI. Installed as a data drive, not as boot, but BIOS sees it, so boot should not be a problem. Thomas Leong 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonas Dannert Posted September 19, 2014 Report Share Posted September 19, 2014 I did not mean that a M2 drive does not work. M2 x2 is more or less similar to SATA Express or SATAe which replaces SATA3 (6 Gbps) and doubles the theoretical speed possible to 12 Gbps. It means without NVMHCI you're not reach the full potential of M2 at x4. And RAID two M2 x2 or x4 drives makes then no sense without NVMHCI. NVMHCI is only natively supported by Microsoft in Windows 8.1. This was my only point. There are also other bottlenecks in a media server system that has to be considered. There are only so much hardware power you can throw at a problem, and get a proper return on investment, without looking at the system as a whole, including WATCHOUT itself. /jonas 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feysal Posted March 19, 2017 Report Share Posted March 19, 2017 I would prefer AHCI of course. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JEdgerly Posted March 20, 2017 Report Share Posted March 20, 2017 With two PCIe 3.0 M.2's in PCIE cards, striped raid, we are seeing sequential reads of 7+ GB a sec. Running Windows 7. Separate SSD for the OS. FWIW 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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