Asus P5Q WS User Manual page 52

3. ICH10R Serial ATA connectors [red] (7-pin SATA1-6)
These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk
drives and optical disc drives.
If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0, 1, 5,
and 10 configuration with the Intel
onboard Intel
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Serial ATA hard disk drive connection
Connector
SATA 1/2
SATA 3/4
SATA 5/6
Connect the right-angle side of SATA
signal cable to SATA device. Or you may
connect the right-angle side of SATA
cable to the onboard SATA port to avoid
mechanical conflict with huge graphics
cards.
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ICH10R RAID controller.
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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 3.3.6 Storage Configuration for details.
Before creating a RAID set, refer to 4.4.3 Intel
the manual bundled in the motherboard support DVD.
When using the connectors in Standard IDE mode, connect the primary
(boot) hard disk drive to the SATA1/2 connector. Refer to the table below
for the recommended SATA hard disk drive connections.
Color
Red
Red
Red
Matrix Storage Technology through the
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Setting
Master
Slave
Master
right angle side
Chapter 2: Hardware information
RAID configurations or
Use
Boot disk
Boot/Data disk
Boot disk