Internal Connectors - Asus SABERTOOTH Z170 Manual

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Internal connectors

1. Intel Serial ATA 6.0 Gb/s connectors (7-pin SATA6G_56 [black];
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SATAEXPRESS12 [gray])
These connectors connect to Serial ATA 6.0 Gb/s hard disk drives via Serial ATA 6
Gb/s signal cables.
If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10
configuration with the Intel
Z170 chipset.
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Rapid Storage Technology through the onboard Intel
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These connectors are set to [AHCI Mode] by default. If you intend to create a Serial
ATA RAID set using these connectors, set the SATA Mode item in the BIOS to
[RAID Mode].
Before creating a RAID set, refer to section 5.1 RAID configurations or the manual
bundled in the motherboard support DVD.
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