Sata Configuration - Asus Maximus IV GENE-Z/GEN3 User Manual

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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.
Scroll down to display the following items:
SATA Mode [AHCI Mode]
Allows you to set the SATA configuration.
[Disabled]
[IDE Mode]
[AHCI Mode]
[RAID Mode]
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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.
Chapter 3: BIOS setup