SSD Displaying as SCSI

PhilH930

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Quick question regarding Win 7 64bit Device Manager displaying my SSD as a SCSI drive. I'm using an ASRock Extreme 4 Z77, and a Samsung 840 Pro 256Gb. When Win7 first boots, and prior to drive install, the device displays as Serial ATA. Once I install the chipset drivers (Intel version 1026), and Intel Management Engine drivers, the device is shown as follows:

ATA Samsung SSD 840 SCSI Disk Device.

When installing Windows, I made sure to have AHCI enabled. Reason I ask is I'm about to install a 2nd SSD for FSX only, and want to ensure all is set correctly. The benchmarks are in the right ball park, and limited research indicates this is more a label than performance concern.

Anyone have any thoughts or experience with this?

Thanks
 

Kindredsouls

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I don't know all the specifics on SATA and SCSI, but my basic understanding is that SATA technology is based on SCSI. So yes, in Windows it may recognize a SATA device as a SCSI device since they are related sorta speak.