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3.3.3
SATA Configuration
The BIOS automatically detects the presence of SATA devices. The Serial ATA
Ports listed will display Empty if there are no Serial devices connected to the ports.
SATA Controller(s) [Enabled]
Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled].
The following items appear only when you set SATA Controller(s) to [Enabled].
SATA Mode Selection [AHCI]
Allows you to set the SATA configuration.
[AHCI]
[RAID]
Serial ATA Port 0/1/2/3
Port 0/1/2/3/4 [Enabled]
These items become configurable when you set the SATA Mode Selection
item to [AHCI] and [RAID], and allow you to enable/disable the SATA port(s).
Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
Hot Plug [Disabled]
These items become configurable when you set the SATA Mode Selection item
to [AHCI] and [RAID], and allow you to enable/disable SATA Hot Plug Support.
Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
M.2 SATA Port
3.3.4
USB Configuration
The USB Devices item lists auto-detected values. If no USB device is detected,
the item shows None.
Chapter 3: BIOS setup
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.
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