Asus A8N-SLI - Motherboard - ATX User Manual page 48

3 . 3 . 3 . 3 . S e r i a l A T A c o n n e c t o r s S e r i a l A T A c o n n e c t o r s S e r i a l A T A c o n n e c t o r s
3 . S e r i a l A T A c o n n e c t o r s S e r i a l A T A c o n n e c t o r s
( 7 - p i n S A T A 1 , S A T A 2 , S A T A 3 , S A T A 4 ) ( 7 - p i n S A T A 1 , S A T A 2 , S A T A 3 , S A T A 4 ) ( 7 - p i n S A T A 1 , S A T A 2 , S A T A 3 , S A T A 4 ) ( 7 - p i n S A T A 1 , S A T A 2 , S A T A 3 , S A T A 4 ) ( 7 - p i n S A T A 1 , S A T A 2 , S A T A 3 , S A T A 4 )
Supported by the NVIDIA
for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk drives that
allows up to 3Gb/s of data transfer rate.
If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0,
RAID 1, RAID 1+0, or JBOD configuration that span across the Parallel
ATA drives. Refer to Chapter 5 for details on how to set up RAID
configurations.
These connectors are set to S A T A
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 N V R A I D
C o n f i g u r a t i o n C o n f i g u r a t i o n
C o n f i g u r a t i o n C o n f i g u r a t i o n sub-menu item in the BIOS. See section "4.4.3 Onboard C o n f i g u r a t i o n
Devices Configuration" on pages 4-24 and 4-26 for details.
A8N-SLI
A8N-SLI SATA connectors
I m p o r t a n t n o t e s o n S e r i a l A T A I m p o r t a n t n o t e s o n S e r i a l A T A I m p o r t a n t n o t e s o n S e r i a l A T A
I m p o r t a n t n o t e s o n S e r i a l A T A I m p o r t a n t n o t e s o n S e r i a l A T A
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2 - 2 2 2 - 2 2 2 - 2 2
2 - 2 2 2 - 2 2
® nForce™ 4 chipset, these connectors are
®
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.
S A T A by default. In SATA mode, you can S A T A S A T A S A T A
N V R A I D N V R A I D
N V R A I D N V R A I D
SATA4
SATA2
C h a p t e r 2 : H a r d w a r e i n f o r m a t i o n C h a p t e r 2 : H a r d w a r e i n f o r m a t i o n C h a p t e r 2 : H a r d w a r e i n f o r m a t i o n
C h a p t e r 2 : H a r d w a r e i n f o r m a t i o n C h a p t e r 2 : H a r d w a r e i n f o r m a t i o n
SATA3
SATA1