SSD

I'm going to be installing a SSD and new HDD drive sometime this week, SSD for the 1st time, I keep reading you should change your sata mode from IDE to AHCI to get the full peformance out of the SSD, but when I go into the bios I have a 'sata mode selection' and a 'sata3 mode' both which allow me to pick either IDE or AHCI which do I need to change? or both. New drives below.

Kingston HyperX Savage Series 2.5" 480GB SATA 6Gb/s

Seagate Barracuda 1TB 64MB Cache Hard Drive SATA 6GB/s 8.5ms 7200rpm

 

Sata3 to AHCI, however it wouldn't hurt to put both sata modes to AHCI

Are you doing a fresh OS install or using a cloned image of the OS installed when the BIOS was set to IDE? If you're using a cloned image then you will have boot issues if you change Bios from IDE to AHCI.

If it's a fresh install, no problems.

 

Fresh install, thx's for the reply bud..

So if I change over to AHCI before I boot from disk to do a fresh install of Win 7 that will have no problem on boot?

 

Cheers guys..

 

I new there was something else I had to ask, is there a need to enable NCQ as well?

 

No need to enable it.
If the hdd and ssd support it you can do it, but in a normal workstation you have no advantage.