What to set SATA mode when mixing SSD & HDD?

[invulnarable27]

Hello,

Best practice is to set the BIOS SATA mode to AHCI when using a single SSD to support the TRIM command in Windows.

However, I am using a RAID controller to RAID1 a pair between 2 HDD's. But in addition to that, 4 SSD's will be attached to the same SATA/RAID Controller.

Setting the BIOS to RAID makes sense, but will the TRIM command still pass through to the 4 unRAIDed SSD's?

Thank You


PS. Not using Intel board/chipset, am running AMD Opteron. Read that Intel recently released drivers that pass through the RAID controller. Maybe AMD has it also?

 

[chesteracorgi]

You'll have to check with the mobo OEM and maybe AMD directly, to see if the TRIM command passes through to the unraided SSDs.

 

[Dereck47]

Any drives that are not part of a RAID array will automatically default to AHCI mode, so the TRIM command will pass through.

 

[JohnnyLucky]

^5 +1 what Dereck47 said.

 

[invulnarable27]

Best answer selected by invulnarable27.

 

[invulnarable27]

Thanks you guys! I appreciate the quick responses 😉