Customers running Windows 7 have reported running into issues when attempting to install an Intel AHCI driver from the DVD or CD, as a part of deploying Microsoft’s latest iteration of the Windows ...

I just put together a new rig. My drives are NCQ and 3.0 Gb/s SATA II. Do I get a performance benefit by switching the BIOS setting from IDE to ACHI? I also hear I should install the drivers before I ...

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 ...

What is Advanced Host Controller Interface? Advanced Host Controller Interface, or AHCI, is a technical standard for an interface that enables software to communicate with Serial ATA (SATA) devices.

In RAID mode, passes TRIM to SSD’s in RAID 0, 1, and 0+1 (RAID-5 is not supported). RAID-5 won’t properly support TRIM because if you were to TRIM a part of a stripe across the array, parity would ...

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The LDS SATA 3 HOST AHCI XZ7 IP incorporates the AHCI registers model, the Transport layer, the Link layer and the PHY layer on a Xilinx Zynq speed gr ...

A blog for IT professionals who work with Windows on large networks. For the last three builds of Windows 10 (10159, 10162, and 10166) the OS was remarkably well-behaved in installing drivers for my ...