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5-10 Serial ATA Connections
SATA Ports
A total of six (6) Serial ATA (SATA)
c o n n e c t o r s a r e l o c a t e d o n t h e
motherboard.
support SATA 3.0 (I-SATA 0/1), while
the remaining four are SATA 2.0.
These Serial Link connections provide
faster data transmission than legacy
Parallel ATA. See the table below for pin
defi nitions.
Note: For more information on SATA
HostRAID confi guration, please refer to
the Intel SATA and LSI SAS HostRAID
User's Guides posted on our Website @
http://www.supermicro.com..
Of these, two ports
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Chapter 5: Advanced Motherboard Setup
SATA Connector Types
Port#
Connection Type
I-SATA 2~5,
SATA 2.0 (3 Gb/s)
I-SATA 0/1
SATA 3.0 (6 Gb/s)
SATA 2.0/3.0 Connectors
Pin Defi nitions
Pin#
Defi nition
1
Ground
2
SATA_TXP
3
SATA_TXN
4
Ground
5
SATA_RXN
6
SATA_RXP
7
Ground
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