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After countless hours of digging and researching my laptop by VENDOR/DEVICE information I learnt that it's "SATA Controller (No RAID support)". Therefore there's no possible solution to my question. The thread can now be closed and this answer can be selected as a solution for future reference.

They (Toshiba) don't seem to have anything, not a driver, not a clue. However other manufacturers such as Asus provide AMD AHCI drivers for the chipsets SB600 (3.1.x) and SB800 (3.3.x) but they appear to be package installers that are going to check for the manufacturer's info prior to...

Thanks, that's what I was worried about. However, many sources on the internet claim that: 1. SATA Controller supports AHCI if the laptop came with original SATA II/III HDD 2. AMD SB600 supports AHCI. So what's to be blamed? Toshiba for putting such a poor BIOS on the mobo? Then again, can...

Thanks dgingeri. Like I mentioned, can't change IDE/SATA modes in BIOS, can I force controller mode in Windows somehow? BTW it's Windows 7 x64 Ultimate. If I can't force it in Windows then I'd need an answer to my 2nd question.

I used AIDA64 to determine whether SATA controller is physically present on my motherboard because something definitely is wrong. Of course the current HDD is SATA II but windows uses ATI SB600 - IDE Controller, not SATA Controller. So I entered the BIOS config and there's no option in regards...

Anybody? (I hope it's allowed to bump a thread once every 24h) EDIT: Re: Below post: Okay COLGreek, sorry.

That's what I heard, but I don't really know. I have a toshiba satellite A210-127 laptop with original SATA II HDD, the BIOS has no SATA/RAID configuration options at all and wouldn't have those even if I had updated it (confirmed with toshiba tech support). I'm replacing the HDD with samsung...

Thank you fil1p! That's the kind of answer I was expecting, based on experience and research. I too want to boost the overall performance of my lappy but putting OS, common apps and the pagefile on the SSD that has up to 98000 IOPS on random read. Thanks for assurance and the information about...

Greetings. I was looking for such a simple answer, but all I found was much more elaborated and did not exactly answer this question. The Samsung 840 EVO 120GB is being shipped to me. I only have 2 GB of RAM in my laptop, obviously I need a pagefile, but is it going to be safe for SSD or could...