I'm about to do a fresh install on desktop and I have a question about IDE vs. AHCI. Which mode should I pick in the bios? IDE, AHCI or RAID? Does AHCI have any advantages over IDE? My HDD right now ...

I've searched and read some topics on this prior to making this post but it's kind of glazed over by now in my memory. I'm finally making the move to AHCI instead of legacy IDE for my SATAII hard ...

Quite handy, Gigabyte issued a small utility that allows you to change the mode of the chipset SATA controller between IDE, AHCI, and RAID (if available), from within Windows itself. Once you apply ...