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SATA Mode [AHCI Mode]

Allows you to set the SATA conguration.

Conguration options: [Disabled] [IDE Mode] [AHCI Mode] [RAID Mode]

• If you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as Parallel ATA physical

storage devices, set this item to [IDE Mode].

• If you want the Serial ATA hard disk drives to use the Advanced Host

Controller Interface (AHCI), keep the default setting[AHCI Mode]. The AHCI

allows the onboard storage driver to enable advanced Serial ATA features

that increases storage performance on random workloads by allowing the

drive to internally optimize the order of commands.

• If you want to create RAID sets with LSI MegaRAID utility, or Intel

Rapid

Storage Technology Enterprise from the Serial ATA hard disk drives, set this

item to [RAID Mode].

SATA Controller 1 [Enhanced]

This item appears only when you set the

SATA Mode

item to [IDE Mode]. Set to

[Enhanced] to support two SATA 6.0 Gb/s and two SATA 3.0 Gb/s devices. Set to

[Compatible] when using Windows 98/NT/2000/MS-DOS. Up to four SATA devices

are supported under these operating systems.

Conguration options: [Disabled] [Enhanced] [Compatible]

S.M.A.R.T. Status Check [Enabled]

S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a monitor

system. When read/write of your hard disk errors occur, this feature allows the hard

disk to report warning messages during the POST.

Conguration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]

Staggered Spin-up [Disabled]

Staggered spin-up is a feature dened in teh Serial ATA Specications. It enables

an HBA to individually spin-up attached SATA devices to avoid maximum current

charged by applying all attached SATA devices at the same time.

Conguration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]

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