Thinkpad T510 BIOS: set to IDE?

Recently, I bought a SSD and a new Thinkpad T510. I installed the SSD and the system works.

I read somewhere about configuring BIOS "to make sure the SATA mode is in AHCI as well (The bios should be set to IDE and AHCI for bets performance)"

I am able to find the place in BIOS to set AHCI but I am unable to find the place for "IDE". Actually I am not sure what "IDE" here means.

Can someone teach me on this?

Regards and Best.

 

Lenovo call IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) as "Compatibility" mode, this is the basic interface for your storage drives to communicate with the system. This mode is usually required for older, legacy OS'. IDE is more common on PATA drives which is slowly being phased out.

AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface) is more advanced than IDE, apart from doing its core job of communicating with the system drive it also enables extra features such as NCQ (Native Command Queuing - basically a performance boost in certain situations) and Power Management on your storage drives. Normally SSD works best with AHCI mode on so it takes advantage of these extra features. You don't need to do anything as the SSD is already operating in its optimal mode.

 

Hearst555, thank you for the info. Thanks!
Best.