Quote Originally Posted by GAR View Post
Are you guys using AHCI or IDE?
I'm running AHCI on my setup. I was tempted to change over to the IDE emulation just because the extra 15 seconds at boot pisses me off; but I have read that these WD Velociraptors will perform better with AHCI so I stuck with it.

I was having issues with my external WD ESATA drive randomly powering down and needing a restart to be detected again, but taking it off the JMicron port and using one of the Intel ports seems to have fixed that problem.