Asus RS740-E7-RS24-EG - Manual (Page 106)

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SATA Mode [AHCI Mode]
Allows you to set the SATA configuration.
Configuration options: [Disabled] [IDE Mode] [AHCI Mode] [RAID Mode]
• If you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as Parallel ATA physical storage
devices, set this item to [IDE Mode].
• If you want the Serial ATA hard disk drives to use the Advanced Host Controller
Interface (AHCI), keep the default setting [AHCI Mode]. 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.
• If you want to create RAID sets with LSI MegaRAID utility, or Intel ® Rapid Storage
Technology Enterprise from the Serial ATA hard disk drives, set this item to [RAID
Mode].
SATA Controller 1 [Enhanced]
This item appears only when you set the SATA Mode item to [IDE Mode]. Set to [Enhanced]
to support two SATA 6.0 Gb/s and two SATA 3.0 Gb/s devices. Set to [Compatible] when
using Windows 98/NT/2000/MS-DOS. Up to four SATA devices are supported under these
operating systems.
Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enhanced] [Compatible]
SATA Controller 2 [Enhanced]
This item appears only when you set the SATA Mode item to [IDE Mode]. Set to [Enhanced]
to support two SATA 3.0 Gb/s devices.
Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enhanced]
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]