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. |
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| The following item appears only when you set the SATA Mode Selection to [IDE]. |
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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. |
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| Due to Intel® chipset specification, the SATA ports from SATA controller 2 does not support |
| Intel® Rapid Storage Technology including RAID configuration. |
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The following item appears only when you set the SATA Mode Selection to [IDE].
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]
These items allow you to enable/disable SATA Hot Plug Support.
Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
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