Serial Ata Support; Sata Drive Activity Led - Intel BOXDP55KG Product Manual

Intel Desktop Board DP55KG Product Guide

Serial ATA Support

Intel Desktop Board DP55KG supports eight onboard 3.0 Gb/s Serial ATA (SATA)
channels (six via the PCH and two via a discrete SATA controller). The board also
provides two backpanel 3.0 Gb/s external SATA (eSATA) channels via the discrete
controller.
The Desktop Board includes a drive activity indicator (a blue LED) shown in Figure 3.
The six onboard SATA channels (black connectors) provided by the PCH support the
following Intel Matrix Storage RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Drives) levels:
• RAID 0 - data striping
• RAID 1 - data mirroring
• RAID 0+1 (or RAID 10) - data striping and data mirroring
• RAID 5 - distributed parity
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Figure 3. SATA Drive Activity LED