Asus P8C WS - Manual (Page 81)

ASUS P8C WS 3-19
Chapter 3
SATA Mode Selection [AHCI]
Allows you to set the SATA configuration.
[IDE]
Set to [IDE] when you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as
Parallel ATA physical storage devices.
[AHCI] 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.
[RAID] Set to [RAID] when you want to create a RAID configuration from the SATA
hard disk drives.
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]
Hot Plug [Disabled]
Allows you to enable or disable the hot plug function of each SATA port. This item appears
only when you set SATA Mode to [AHCI Mode] or [RAID Mode]