I'm still running an OLD Gigabyte GA-K8N-SLI motherboard with a 120GB IDE boot drive. I just bought a new Samsung 850 Pro SSD 256GB drive hoping to get a little more life and performance out of this system before I do a new build later this year.
My question, which I've been unable to find a definite answer to, is does this motherboard support AHCI for the new SSD drive? I'm running the 120GB IDE primary drive along with a n 80GB IDE D: drive and a 2TB SATA drive.
The manual for the SSD states to switch SATA to AHCI to support the new drive (I'm wanting to clone over the current C drive to the new SSD drive), but I cant find any reference to AHCI in the manual for the old Gigabyte motherboard.
Is my motherboard too old to use an SSD? I understand I probably won't get peak performance with a new SSD drive, but was hopeful it would extend the life a few more months until I can buy a new mb/cpu/memory to start a rebuild.
Much thanks to anyone that can give a little insight and info on this dilemma. I'd like to find out before beginning to clone over the old drive to the new.
My question, which I've been unable to find a definite answer to, is does this motherboard support AHCI for the new SSD drive? I'm running the 120GB IDE primary drive along with a n 80GB IDE D: drive and a 2TB SATA drive.
The manual for the SSD states to switch SATA to AHCI to support the new drive (I'm wanting to clone over the current C drive to the new SSD drive), but I cant find any reference to AHCI in the manual for the old Gigabyte motherboard.
Is my motherboard too old to use an SSD? I understand I probably won't get peak performance with a new SSD drive, but was hopeful it would extend the life a few more months until I can buy a new mb/cpu/memory to start a rebuild.
Much thanks to anyone that can give a little insight and info on this dilemma. I'd like to find out before beginning to clone over the old drive to the new.
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