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ROG MAXIMUS XI CODE BIOS Manual
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1.6.5 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.
Scroll down to display the other BIOS items.
SATA Controller(s)
This item allows you to enable or disable the SATA Device.
Conguration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
The following item appears only when you set the SATA Controller(s) to [Enabled].
SATA Mode Selection
This item allows you to set the SATA conguration.
[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
conguration from the SATA hard disk drives.