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Chapter 3

3.6.5 PCH Storage Configuration

While entering Setup, the BIOS automatically detects the presence of SATA devices. The

SATA Port items show Empty if no SATA device is installed to the corresponding SATA port.

SATA Controller(s)

This item allows you to enable or disable the SATA Device.

Conguration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]

SATA Mode Selection

This item allows you to set the SATA conguration.

[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.

[Intel RST Premium

With Intel Optane

System Acceleration

(RAID)]

Set to [Intel RST Premium With Intel Optane System

Acceleration (RAID)] when you want to create a RAID

conguration from the SATA hard disk drives.

S.M.A.R.T. Status Check

S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a monitoring system that

shows a warning message during POST (Power-on Self Test) when an error occurs in the

hard disks.

Conguration options: [On] [Off]

SATA6G_1(Gray) - SATA6G_4(Gray)

This item allows you to enable or disable the selected SATA port.

Conguration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]

Hot Plug

These items appears only when the SATA Mode Selection is set to [AHCI] and allows

you to enable or disable SATA Hot Plug Support.

Conguration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]

3.6.6 PCH-FW Configuration

This item allows you to congure the rmware TPM.