[SOLVED] IDE or AHCI ???

[Br_Pay]

Hello everyone.. last day I bought a Seagate HDD hard drive for my laptop...

The laptop :

Acer E1-570G
8 GB RAM
Intel core i3-3217U
NVIDIA GeForce 720M

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the question is which configuration should I use for my HDD hard drive in Bios ?
IDE or AHCI

everyone says AHCI right ?

but after installing windows 10 in AHCI mode with HDD ..I have got a poor performance and delays during working with windows 10

it can just boot up in AHCI mode ..but in IDE mode I just see a Blank screen with no
( HDD ) led blinking ….

That solution in my mind is changing to IDE mode to increase the speed and performance because it's a HDD hard drive .....is that right ?

let me know. Thanks

 

[rgd1101]

hdd? why? what the rpm on the hdd?

 

[Br_Pay]

Temporarily...
5400 rpm

 

[ex_bubblehead]

There is absolutely NO difference in speed between IDE and AHCI mode. And, you cannot change the BIOS between modes without a complete wipe/reformat of the drive. Your problems stem from using a spinning drive, which is many times slower than an SSD of equivalent size (especially at 5400 RPM). Additionally if the drive is using SMR you'll get even lower performance. Bottom line is that you chose the wrong drive as primary.

 

[USAFRet]

Leave it at AHCI.
Changing to IDE will not make a whit of difference.

In addition, you can't just 'change it' midstream.

 

[Br_Pay]

There is absolutely NO difference in speed between IDE and AHCI mode. And, you cannot change the BIOS between modes without a complete wipe/reformat of the drive. Your problems stem from using a spinning drive, which is many times slower than an SSD of equivalent size (especially at 5400 RPM). Additionally if the drive is using SMR you'll get even lower performance. Bottom line is that you chose the wrong drive as primary.

Thanks a lot !

what about the type of partitions before installing the windows 10 ?
it creates system reversed partition with a size of 560MB as a system partition and last times for installing windows was 320MB ?!

second is primary partition for installing windows 10 after creating system partition....

what's difference ?

 

[Br_Pay]

Leave it at AHCI.
Changing to IDE will not make a whit of difference.

In addition, you can't just 'change it' midstream.

got it ...thanks 👍

 

[ex_bubblehead]

Thanks a lot !

what about the type of partitions before installing the windows 10 ?
it creates system reversed partition with a size of 560MB as a system partition and last times for installing windows was 320MB ?!

second is primary partition for installing windows 10 after creating system partition....

what's difference ?

Just run a custom installation, remove ALL existing partitions and let the installer create what it needs.

 

[geofelt]

A HDD for a C drive in a laptop is an absolute disaster from a performance point of view.
Plan to dump the HDD and use it for external backup.
A SSD should be installed with ahci.
So if you are planning on cloning the HDD to a ssd later, you will want the HDD to be installed as AHCI

 

[Br_Pay]

Just run a custom installation, remove ALL existing partitions and let the installer create what it needs.

Good idea ! 👍
Thank you !

 

[USAFRet]

Good idea ! 👍
Thank you !

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[Br_Pay]

i have found the solution....

i have just tested my hard drive with cristal disk info ...

and the hard drive has worked for 58453 hours !

What the actual F**** ?

More than 2 years i think ...
it's dying actually...
i should deal with the seller...

but anyway..
Thanks for your help guys ...
the informations were helpful 👍



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