Internal Connectors - Asus Z9PA-D8 User Manual

2.8.2

Internal connectors

1. Serial ATA 6.0/3.0 Gb/s connectors
(7-pin SATA6G_1-2 [light blue])
(7-pin SATA3G_3-6 [black])
These connectors connect to Serial ATA 6.0Gb/s or 3.0 Gb/s hard disk drives
and optical disc drives via Serial ATA 6.0Gb/s or 3.0 Gb/s signal cables.
2. PSAS connectors (PIKE required)
SAS connector - PSAS connectors are for the SAS signal cables for SAS
hard disk drives that allows up to 6Gb/s of data transfer rate.
If you installed SAS hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID
10, or RAID 5 configuration.
The actual data transfer rate depends on the speed of SAS hard disks installed.
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