Asus Maximus IV Extreme-Z - Manual (Page 114)

3-22 Chapter 3: BIOS setup
�.�.4 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.
SATA Mode [AHCI Mode]
Allows you to set the SATA configuration.
[Disabled]
Disables the SATA function.
[IDE Mode] Set to [IDE Mode] when you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk
drives as Parallel ATA physical storage devices.
[AHCI Mode] 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.
[RAID Mode] Set to [RAID Mode] when you want to create a RAID configuration
from the SATA hard disk drives.
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