Asus UP-895MD Series User Manual page 116

By default, the system detects the first priority device. The device detection priority is as
follows: PCIe M.2 > SATA Mode M.2 > PCIe SATA Express > SATA Mode SATA Express
> SATA devices.
SATAEXPRESS SRIS Support [Auto]
[Auto]
Independent Spread Spectrum Clocking Architecture) support for connected M.2 or SATA
Express devices.
[Disabled]
SATA Mode Selection [AHCI]
This item allows you to set the SATA configuration.
[Disabled]
[IDE]
[AHCI]
[RAID]
The following item appears only when you set the SATA Mode Selection to [RAID].
PCI-E NAND Configuration [Auto]
This item allows you to enable or disable PCI-E NAND.
Configuration options: [Auto] [Disabled] [Enabled]
Aggressive LPM Support [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]
S.M.A.R.T. Status Check [Enabled]
S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a monitoring system that
shows a warning message during POST (Power-on Self Test) when an error occurs in the
hard disks.
Configuration options: [On] [Off]
Hot Plug [Disabled] (SATA6G_1 - SATA6G_6)
These items allow you to enable/disable SATA Hot Plug Support.
Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
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The system will automatically adjust the SRIS(Separate Reference Clock
Select this option for ASUS RUNWAY SATA Express bridge card.
Disables the SATA function.
Set to [IDE] when you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as
Parallel ATA physical storage devices.
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.
Set to [RAID] when you want to create a RAID configuration from the SATA
hard disk drives.
Chapter 3: BIOS setup