Asus X99-E WS/USB 3.1 Manual page 109

SATA Controller 1 Mode Selection [AHCI]
This item allows you to set the SATA configuration.
[Disabled]
[IDE Mode]
[AHCI Mode]
[RAID Mode]
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]
[IDE Mode]
[AHCI Mode]
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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Disables the SATA function.
Set to [IDE Mode] when you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as
Parallel ATA physical storage devices.
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.
Set to [RAID Mode] 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].
Disables the SATA function.
Set to [IDE Mode] when you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as
Parallel ATA physical storage devices.
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
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Intel ® Rapid Storage Technology including RAID configuration.
The following item appears only when you set the SATA Mode Selection to [IDE].
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