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    Bios, enable 32 bit mode on drives?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by dma550, Sep 25, 2010.

  1. dma550

    dma550 Notebook Consultant

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    Hey guys

    Just did the A09 update on the bios and I noticed that in performance, under the SATA drives, there is a "mode" for each of the drives, "32 bit enabled". Both of mine are set to false, on my SATA Intel 160GB SSD and my 7200RPM 500G seagate.

    I was going to bench it on and off, any ideas as to why this defaults to false?
     
    dma550, Sep 25, 2010
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    32-Bit Disk Access Can Degrade Hard Drive Performance
     
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    Thanks, I appreciate it. I would think it would be faster, but yes, multiple schemes all add up to more work being done. Thanks for posting.
     
    dma550, Sep 25, 2010
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