
Originally Posted by
poldopunk
between SATA (AHCI) and IDE Emulation mode, you wouldn't feel the difference but from the benchmarks, the NCQ through SATA is useful only to servers where there are lots of queries which isn't the case on home-based users. There is a slight lower performance with AHCI enabled but again, you wouldn't feel it. The only advantage when running AHCI is that you'll have the option to remove device even when in Windows.

Originally Posted by
poldopunk
that's actually one feature of running your hard drive as AHCI. if hard drive is running AHCI, it is plug and play (removable), simply disable AHCI in the BIOS and set it to IDE and you'll lose the ability to remove the device in Windows but then again, you'll lose plug and play functionality as well as NCQ (native command queueing).
nose bleed man ta ani, anyways thanks sa info, very informative.