ASUS RS320Q-E7/RS12 Benutzerhandbuch

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Chapter 5: BIOS setup

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.

Allows you to set the SATA configuration. 
Configuration options: [Disabled] [IDE Mode] [AHCI Mode] [RAID Mode]

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If you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as Parallel ATA physical storage 

devices, keep the default setting [IDE Mode].

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If you want the Serial ATA hard disk drives to use the Advanced Host Controller 

Interface (AHCI), set this item to [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.

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If you want to create RAID sets with LSI MegaRAID utility, or Intel

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 Matrix Storage 

Technology from the Serial ATA hard disk drives, set this item to [RAID Mode].

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]