Sata Configuration - Asus P8Z77-V LE PLUS User 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
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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_1 (Blue)
Hot Plug
SATA 3G_2 (Blue)
Hot Plug
SATA 3G_3 (Blue)
Hot Plug
SATA 3G_4 (Blue)
Scroll down to display the following items:
Hot Plug
SATA Mode Selection [AHCI]
Allows you to set the SATA configuration.
[IDE]
[AHCI]
[RAID]
S.M.A.R.T. Status Check [Enabled]
S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a monitor system. When
read/write of your hard disk errors occur, this feature allows the hard disk to report warning
messages during the POST. Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled]
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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.
Monitor Boot
Determines how SATA controller(s)
operate.
AHCI
Enabled
Empty
Disabled
Empty
Disabled
Empty
Disabled
→←: Select Screen
↑↓: Select Item
Empty
Enter: Select
+/-: Change Opt.
Disabled
F1: General Help
F2: Previous Values
Empty
F3: Shortcut
F5: Optimized Defaults
Disabled
F10: Save
F12: Print Screen
Empty
Disabled
Chapter 3: BIOS setup
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