I've just upgraded my parents' 2008-vintage Vista PC (32-bit Home Basic) with a SanDisk SSD in place of the old boot drive. It now runs much faster, as you'd expect, but only if you leave the BIOS set to "Native IDE". If you set it to "IDE>AHCI" (which is the only AHCI-related option), it boots slower than the old hard drive. Any ideas why?
I'd like to know I've got everything running as fast as it possibly can, given the limitations of the SATA II motherboard and OS. Should I just leave it as "Native IDE" and be happy with that, or should I try and find a way of getting full speed via "IDE>AHCI"?
FWIW, I've done the registry hack to enable AHCI. I've also looked to see if there are any firmware updates for the mobo relating to AHCI, but I can't see anything other than stuff related to Win7. Is it worth updating to those anyway?
I'd like to know I've got everything running as fast as it possibly can, given the limitations of the SATA II motherboard and OS. Should I just leave it as "Native IDE" and be happy with that, or should I try and find a way of getting full speed via "IDE>AHCI"?
FWIW, I've done the registry hack to enable AHCI. I've also looked to see if there are any firmware updates for the mobo relating to AHCI, but I can't see anything other than stuff related to Win7. Is it worth updating to those anyway?