Asus P5B DELUXE User Manual page 53

P5B Deluxe IDE connector
3. ICH8R Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1 [red], SATA2 [red], SATA3
[black], SATA4 [black], SATA5 [red], SATA6 [red])
These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk
drives.
If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0, RAID
1, RAID 5, RAID 10 configuration with the Intel
through the onboard Intel
• These connectors are set to Standard IDE mode by default. In Standard
IDE mode, you can connect Serial ATA boot/data hard disk drives to these
connectors. If you intend to create a Serial ATA RAID set using these
connectors, set the [Configure SATA as] item in the BIOS to [RAID]. See
section "4.3.6 IDE Configuration" on page 4-14 for details.
• For RAID 5, use at least three hard disk drives. For RAID 10, use at least
four hard disk drives. Use two to four Serial ATA hard disk drives for each
RAID 0 or RAID 1 set.
P5B Deluxe SATA connectors
ASUS P5B Deluxe
PRI_IDE
NOTE: Orient the red markings
(usually zigzag) on the IDE
ribbon cable to PIN 1.
ICH8R RAID controller.
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SATA5
SATA6
Matrix Storage Technology
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SATA2 SATA1
SATA4 SATA3
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