Anyway, I am curious about one potential difference between SATA and (older) ATA/IDE disks: is there maybe a difference between the two types of drives in terms of moving files/directories around the ...

I'm looking to transition to a SATA Hard Disk, and I have been reading the motherboard manual where it states in BIOS that the possible modes are IDE Legacy, AHCI, and RAID/IDE. I looked up on Wiki ...