This year there will be a lot of developments to the line up of VIA IDE drivers. We already have an IDE Filter driver and the V-RAID package built into the HyperionPro package, a beta Accelerator driver, old Miniport driver and today a new one - the VIA MiniIDE driver! Which ones do you need? What are the features and benefits of each driver? A new guide has just been published to coincide with the release of the new MiniIDE driver, that we hope will help you understand the VIA IDE driver choices.

"Microsoft Windows operating systems are provided with default Microsoft IDE drivers. VIA engineers develop IDE drivers specifically for VIA chipsets, with the aim to provide extra features, added performance and enhanced compatibility, especially developed for VIA Parallel ATA (PATA) and Serial ATA (SATA) controllers. There are 4 main VIA IDE driver choices for VIA chipset based systems. Not all drivers are relevant for all hardware and operating systems. This guide seeks to provide users with a summary of the benefits of each VIA IDE driver and which operating systems and controllers they support, so that users can ascertain whether they are relevant to their system."

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