Asus K8N-DRE - Motherboard - Extended ATX User Manual page 17

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Dual RAID solution

Onboard RAID controllers provide the motherboard with dual-RAID

functionality that allows you to select the best RAID solution using IDE or

Serial ATA devices.

The NVIDIA

nForce4

configuration for four SATA and two PATA connectors. See pages 2-23 and

2-24 for details.

The LSI 1020A controller ( SCSI models only ) supports a single-channel SCSI

Ultra320 and allows RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 1E. See pages 2-25 for

details.

USB 2.0 technology

The motherboard implements the Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0

specification, dramatically increasing the connection speed from the

12 Mbps bandwidth on USB 1.1 to a fast 480 Mbps on USB 2.0. USB 2.0 is

backward compatible with USB 1.1. See pages 2-22 and 2-27 for details.

Temperature, fan, and voltage monitoring

The CPU temperature is monitored by the ASIC (Winbond W83792D) to

prevent overheating and damage. The system fan rotations per minute

(RPM) is monitored for timely failure detection. The ASIC monitors the

voltage levels to ensure stable supply of current for critical components.

See section "4.4.8 Hardware Monitor" on page 4-27.

A S U S K 8 N - D R E

PRO allows RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1 and JBOD

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