SSD no RAID or ACHI settings to be found

[Badgerzman]

I have recently installed a Kingston UV400 240GB SSD. I cannot seem to find anything that tells me if I do or do not have ACHI capabilities, or TRIM enabled. 

I have checked :

C:\WINDOWS\system32>fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify
NTFS DisableDeleteNotify = 0
ReFS DisableDeleteNotify is not currently set

C:\WINDOWS\system32>

I have also tried to set disabledeletenotify to 0 and that does not work when i recheck it. 

I have checked in the Device manager and I do not see any ACHI under the IDE ATA/ATPAI controller section. Nor do I see anything involving TRIM or RAPID under the storage controller section.

At this point i believe there is almost nothing I can do.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

What is the full model number or product number of your notebook?

The product number can be found on the same sticker as the serial number.

[Badgerzman]

My product number is: N5Y09UA#ABA

Sorry I thought I put that in ibut I guess I forgot.

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi:

So, I see that your notebook is an amd model and when you click on the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers device manager category, you see an AMD SATA controller listed there, correct?

And what we would like to see there as we do in an Intel based notebook is a specific named sata achi controller.

I have disassembled the AMD chipset drivers, before, and when you look at the file contents of the ahci driver, there are references to ahci in the driver setup information file, but for some reason AMD chose to simply label it as a sata controller.

It is also my understanding that the 3rd party ssd management tools all report that ahci is not enabled, etc.

You can easily test that TRIM is supported in W10 by going to the all programs menu, Windows Administrative Tools>Defragment and Optimize Drives, and see if W10 will trim the drive.

Windows 10 automatically distinguishes between SSDs and mechanical hard drives.

If it trims the drive (and it should in a matter of seconds) then there is nothing to be concerned about.

[Badgerzman]

So I checked everything you said, so far it is all correct.

I just want to verify that this means I cannot set anything in the BIOS to ACHI? 

Are there any other steps to obtain the maximum performance out of my new SSD?

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You are correct.

HP hasn't put chageable drive controller settings in consumer class notebooks for years.

In any event, the drive controller in your notebook is set to AHCI, and cannot be changed.

As I wrote...AMD simply didn't label the device as an AMD SATA AHCI Controller, like Intel does.

The only minor adjustment to tweak a teeny bit more performance out of the drive is to go to the device manager click on the Disk Drives device manager category and then click on your Kingston SSD.

Click on the Policies tab and check the Turn off the Windows write cache buffer flushing... option.

And I have also zipped up an attached a free utility below.  Amongst many interesting things, this will check the speed of your SSD and drive controller.

You will want to see your drive running at the sata III (6.0 GBPS speed).

Download, unzip and run the utility.  Close out of the summary report window.

On the left side of the program window, click to expand the Drives category.  Click to expand the sata atapi drives section.  Click on your Kingston SSD.

On the right side of the window, the first item listed should be the Drive Controller report.

You want to be seeing Serial ATA 6 GBPS @ 6 GBPS.

If you see that, then you are getting the max out of your SSD.

If you see Serial ATA 6 GBPS @ 3 GBPS, that means the drive controller in your notebook is only rated at the SATA II speed, and there isn't anything you can do about that.