Asus Motherboard P5NT WS Product Manual page 19

Serial ATA II technology
The motherboard fully supports the Serial ATA II 3.0 Gb/s technology through
the Serial ATA interfaces and the NVIDIA chipset. The Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s
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specification provides twice the bandwidth of the current Serial ATA products with
a host of new features, including Native Command Queueing (NCQ), and Power
Management (PM) Implementation Algorithm. Serial ATA allows for thinner, more
flexible cables with lower pin count and reduced voltage required. See page 2-26
for details.
The NVIDIA MediaShield™ RAID controller integrated in the NVIDIA chipset
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allows RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5, and JBOD configurations for six SATA
3.0 Gb/s connectors. See pages 2-26 and 5-32 for details.
IEEE 1394a support
The IEEE 1394a interface provides high speed digital interface for audio/video
appliances such as digital television, digital video camcorders, storage peripherals
& other PC portable devices. See page 2-28 for details.
S/PDIF digital sound ready
This motherboard provides convenient connectivity to external home theater audio
systems via coaxial and optical S/PDIF-out (SONY/PHILIPS Digital Interface) jacks.
It allows to transfer digital audio without converting to analog format and keeps the
best signal quality. See pages 2-22 and 2-23 for details.
Dual Gigabit LAN solution
The motherboard comes with dual Gigabit LAN controllers to provide the total
solution for your networking needs. These network controllers provide faster data
bandwidth for your wired or wireless Internet, LAN, and file sharing requirements.
See page 2-22 for details.
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