Serial Ata Connectors - Asus Motherboard A8N-SLI Premium User Manual

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Serial ATA connectors

(7-pin SATA1, SATA2, SATA3, SATA4)
Supported by the NVIDIA
the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk drives that allows
up to 3Gb/s of data transfer rate.
These connectors are set to SATA by default. In SATA mode, you can
connect Serial ATA boot or data hard disk drives to these connectors.
If you intent to create a Serial ATA RAID set using these connectors,
enable the RAID function of each port from the NVRAID Configuration
sub-menu item in the BIOS. See section "4.4.3 Onboard Devices
Configuration" on pages 4-24 and 4-26 for details.
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Important notes on Serial ATA
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The actual data transfer rate depends on the speed of Serial ATA
hard disks installed.
See Appendix for instructions on how to install the Serial ATA
extension module.
nForce4™ chipset, these connectors are for
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SATA2
SATA4
Chapter 2: Hardware information
SATA1
SATA3