SATA Controller 1 Mode Selection [AHCI]

This item allows you to set the SATA configuration.

[Disabled]

Disables the SATA function.

[IDE]

Set to [IDE] when you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as

 

Parallel ATA physical storage devices.

[AHCI]

Set to [AHCI] 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] when you want to create a RAID configuration from the SATA

 

hard disk drives.

 

 

 

The following item appears only when you set the SATA Mode Selection to [IDE].

 

 

SATA6G_1-6 (Gray)

These items display all connected devices to SATA6G ports. If some ports are not used, these items show [Not Installed].

SATA Controller 2 Mode Selection [AHCI]

This item 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.

 

 

 

Due to Intel® chipset specification, the SATA ports from SATA controller 2 does not support

 

Intel® Rapid Storage Technology including RAID configuration.

 

 

The following item appears only when you set the SATA Mode Selection to [IDE].

SATA6G_7-10 (Black)

These items display all connected devices to SATA6G ports. If some ports are not used, these items show [Not Installed].

Support Aggressive Link Power Management [Disabled]

This item is designed for LPM (link power management) support with a better energy saving conditions. When disabled, the hot plug function of SATA ports are disabled.

Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]

Hot Plug [Disabled] (SATA6G_1-6 (Gray) / SATA6G_7-10 (Black))

These items allow you to enable/disable SATA Hot Plug Support.

Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]

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