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September 17th, 2019 09:00
Bios Setting: RAID ON Versus AHCI?
I recently ordered a Dell XPS 8930 desktop with a Toshiba SSD as my primary and only disk storage. Given that my PC is a pure SSD setup, with no spinning HDD, what should my bios setting be: RAID ON or AHCI?
I checked my bios and the SATA Operation setting is currently set to RAID ON. Should I reset this, through the proper procedure, to AHCI?
I have also been running into the micro freezing problem (i.e. 3-5 second freeze of my mouse) so I was wondering if this setting could be a contributing factor? I ask because I did see some comments posted that once they swapped out the Toshiba SSD for another SSD brand, and reset the SATA Operation value to AHCI, the micro freezing problem disappeared.
Thanks in advance for any feedback.
DellCan
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September 17th, 2019 13:00
If Toshiba is a "bad brand" as you say then why does Dell install their SSD cards into Dell desktop PC's? This doesn't make sense.
speedstep
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September 17th, 2019 09:00
RAID on requires the INTEL RST Driver.
https://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/04/how11804/how-to-install-windows-7-on-systems-with-skylake-chipset?lang=en
AHCI can use built into windows driver IF you are talking about windows 7 SP1.
F6 mass storage Drivers are Required for AHCI or IRRT.
Intel® Rapid Recover Technology (Intel® RRT)
https://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/04/sln79727/using-the-intel-rapid-recover-technology-irrt-to-create-a-recovery-volume?lang=en
Intel Rapid Recover Technology (IRRT) is a feature of Intel Rapid Storage Technology that uses RAID 1 functionality to mirror data from the primary hard drive in a system to a designated recovery drive. Note that the recovery volume can be the only volume on a system and that the recovery volume capacity equals the size of the smaller of the two hard drives.
INTEL removed all the older RST Drivers version 9.6 10.1.0.1008 11.3 11.7 12.x 13.X 14.X 15.X
16.X
You cannot upgrade RST with reckless abandon from version 9 to version 17.
Depends on the Chipset.
Systems running driver version 15.9.x, 16.0.x, 16.5.x, or 16.7.x should update to the latest version.
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/29007/Intel-Rapid-Storage-Technology-Intel-RST-User-Interface-and-Driver
SetupRST.exe
Windows 10, 32-bit*
Windows 10, 64-bit*
Windows Server 2016*
Language: English
Size: 22.16 MB
MD5: 5f8ed0535211826afec73f9c3198c6aa
SetupOptaneMemory.exe
Windows 10, 64-bit*
Language: English
Size: 73.07 MB
MD5: 456a48399e583622aded654ac59690bb
f6flpy-x64.zip
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Language: English
Size: 4 MB
MD5: f323e7558553d7268a2b0724e74b5e68
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speedstep
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September 17th, 2019 09:00
Toshiba and OCZ are very bad brands.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2090061/toshiba-completes-acquisition-of-ocz-storage.html
Mr_Green
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March 19th, 2021 12:00
Is this applicable to Windows 10 too? Kindly let me know. Thanks.
I have an old dell latitude e7270, with i5-6300.
I intend to change the SATA Operation to "AHCI" and install Windows 10 fresh on my new SSD - 1TB M.2 (2280) SSD • PCIe NVMe Gen 3 x4 • 2,400 MB/s Read, 1800 MB/s Write
Vic384
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March 19th, 2021 13:00
@Mr_Green You should not have a problem if you change SATA operation to AHCI and do a fresh install of Windows 10.
Mr_Green
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March 19th, 2021 13:00
Cool! Thanks for the quick reply! will let you know in the coming weeks if i face any issue.