Sata Configuration - Asus P8Z77-V DELUXE Manual

3.5.3

SATA Configuration

While entering Setup, the BIOS automatically detects the presence of SATA devices. The SATA
Port items show Not Present if no SATA device is installed to the corresponding SATA port.
UEFI BIOS Utility - Advanced Mode
Main
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SATA Configuration
SATA Mode
S.M.A.R.T. Status Check
SATA 6G_1 (Gray)
Hot Plug
SATA 6G_2 (Gray)
Hot Plug
SATA 3G_3 (Blue)
Hot Plug
SATA 3G_4 (Blue)
Hot Plug
SATA 3G_5 (Blue)
Hot Plug
SATA 3G_6 (Blue)
Scroll down to display the following items:
Hot Plug
SATA Mode Selection [AHCI Mode]
Allows you to set the SATA configuration.
[Disabled] Disables the SATA function.
[IDE Mode] Set to [IDE Mode] when you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as
Parallel ATA physical storage devices.
[AHCI Mode] 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 Mode] Set to [RAID Mode] when you want to create a RAID configuration from the
SATA hard disk drives.
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Monitor Boot
(1) IDE Mode. (2) AHCI Mode. (3)
RAID Mode.
AHCI Mode
Enabled
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Disabled
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Disabled
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→←: Select Screen
↑↓: Select Item
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Enter: Select
+/-: Change Opt.
Disabled
F1: General Help
F2: Previous Values
F5: Optimized Defaults
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F10: Save
Disabled
F12: Print Screen
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Chapter 3: BIOS setup
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