Asus K8N4-E K8N4-E User's Manual for English Edition - Page 40

3. Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1 [black], SATA2 [black], SATA3 [black], SATA4 [black]) Supported by the NVIDIA® nForce4-4X chipset, these connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk drives that allow up to 3Gb/s of data transfer rate. If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 1+0, or JBOD configuration that spans 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 intend to create a Serial ATA RAID set using these connectors, enable the R A I D 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-item in the BIOS. See section "4.4.3 Onboard device configuration" for details. SATA4 SATA3 SATA2 SATA1 K8N4-E ® K8N4-E SATA connectors Important notes on Serial ATA • The actual data transfer rate depends on the speed of Serial ATA hard disks installed. • See the Appendix for instructions on how to install the Serial ATA extension module. GND RSATA_TXP4 RSATA_TXN4 GND RSATA_RXP4 RSATA_RXN4 GND GND RSATA_TXP3 RSATA_TXN3 GND RSATA_RXP3 RSATA_RXN3 GND GND RSATA_TXP2 RSATA_TXN2 GND RSATA_RXP2 RSATA_RXN2 GND GND RSATA_TXP1 RSATA_TXN1 GND RSATA_RXP1 RSATA_RXN1 GND 1-28 Chapter 1: Product introduction