Asus A8N-SLI A8N-SLI English edition user's manual, version E1947 - Page 48

3. Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1, SATA2, SATA3, SATA4) Supported by the NVIDIA® nForce™ 4 chipset, these connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk drives that allows up to 3Gb/s of data transfer rate. If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 1+0, or JBOD configuration that span across the Parallel ATA drives. Refer to Chapter 5 for details on how to set up RAID configurations. These connectors are set to S A T A by default. In SATA mode, you can connect Serial ATA boot or data hard disk drives to these connectors. If you intent to create a Serial ATA RAID set using these connectors, enable the RAID function of each port from the N V R A I D C o n f i g u r a t i o n sub-menu item in the BIOS. See section "4.4.3 Onboard Devices Configuration" on pages 4-24 and 4-26 for details. GND RSATA_RXN4 RSATA_RXP4 GND RSATA_TXN4 RSATA_TXP4 GND GND RSATA_RXN3 RSATA_RXP3 GND RSATA_TXN3 RSATA_TXP3 GND A8N-SLI ® A8N-SLI SATA connectors SATA4 SATA2 GND RSATA_RXN2 RSATA_RXP2 GND RSATA_TXN2 RSATA_TXP2 GND GND RSATA_RXN1 RSATA_RXP1 GND RSATA_TXN1 RSATA_TXP1 GND SATA3 SATA1 Important notes on Serial ATA • The actual data transfer rate depends on the speed of Serial ATA hard disks installed. • See Appendix for instructions on how to install the Serial ATA extension module. 2-22 Chapter 2: Hardware information