My parents have a 4? year-old Maxtor hard drive hooked up to the main IDE controller on an Asus A7V. This morning, after the BIOS detected the hard drive and 2 opticals, it said "Primary hard disk ...

Hard disk drives connect to a motherboard using either a Serial Advanced Technology Attachment connector or an Integrated Drive Electronics connector. SATA drives are newer than IDE, so older ...

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 ...