Asus H87M-PRO Sata Mode Selection Ahci, Aggressive LPM Support Auto, A.R.T. Status Check Enabled

SATA Mode Selection [AHCI]

Allows you to set the SATA configuration.

[Disabled]	Disables the SATA function.
[IDE]	Set to [IDE Mode] when you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as
	Parallel ATA physical storage devices.
[AHCI]	Set to [AHCI Mode] when you want the SATA hard disk drives to use the
	AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface). 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.
[RAID]	Set to [RAID Mode] when you want to create a RAID configuration from the
	SATA hard disk drives.

Aggressive LPM Support [Auto]

This item appears only when you set the SATA Mode Selection item to [AHCI] or [RAID], and allow you to enable the PCH to aggressively enter link power state. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled] [Auto]

IDE Legacy / Native Mode Selection [Native]

This item appears only when you set the SATA Mode Selection item to [IDE]. Configuration options: [Native] [Legacy]

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. Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled]

Hot Plug [Disabled] (SATA6G_1 ~ SATA6G_6 [Yellow])

This item appears only when you set the SATA Mode Selection item to [AHCI] or [RAID], and allow you to enable/disable SATA Hot Plug Support. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]

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