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AHCI vs RAID

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I have a 1 TB seagate HDD powered up by a Gigabyte z97 Motherboard.

 

I recently installed the Gigabyte EZ tuner software to my PC and inside the "Disk mode" switch I found two options...

1. AHCI

2. RAID

 

I don't know what these two are meant for....

Which one is compatible and effective for a Mid-range gaming PC ?

 

 

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Are you using multible drives in raid. Y/N?

 

If No then AHCI. If you want to use the intel RAID controller then RAID.

PC:

Monolith(Laptop): CPU: i7 5700HQ GPU: GTX 980M 8GB RAM: 2x8GB 1600MHz Storage: 2x128GB Samsung 850 EVO(Raid 0) + 1TB HGST 7200RPM Model: Gigabyte P35XV4 Mouse: Razer Orochi Headset: Turtle Beach Stealth 450

 

IoT:

Router: Netgear D7000 Nighthawk

NAS: Synology DS218j, 2x 4TB Seagate Ironwolf

Media Accelerator: Nvidia Shield via Plex

Phone: Sony Xperia X Compact

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RAID means Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks.

It basically allows multiple disks to function a one disk with redundancy (except for RAID 0).

Since you are using only one disk you can't use RAID.And you shouldn't use it anyways.

 

Go with AHCI

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