Asus P5N32-SLI-Deluxe P5N32-SLI Deluxe User's Manual for English Edition - Page 58

3 . N V I D I A® nForce™ 4 SLI Southbridge Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1 [blue], SATA2 [blue], SATA3 [blue], SATA4 [blue]) These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard disk and optical disk drives. The Serial ATA 3Gb/s is backward compatible with Serial ATA 1.5Gb/s specification. If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5, or JBOD configuration through the onboard NVIDIA® nForce™ 4 SLI RAID controller. Refer to section "5.4.2 NVIDIA® RAID configurations" for details on how to set up Serial ATA RAID configurations. The RAID function of these connectors is set to [Disabled] by default. If you intend to create a Serial ATA RAID set using these connectors, enable the n V i d i a R A I D F u n c t i o n item in the BIOS. See section "4.3.7 IDE Configuration" for details. P5N32-SLI GND RSATA_TXP2 RSATA_TXN2 GND RSATA_RXP2 RSATA_RXN2 GND SATA1 ® SATA3 P5N32-SLI SATA connectors GND RSATA_TXP1 RSATA_TXN1 GND RSATA_RXP1 RSATA_RXN1 GND SATA2 SATA4 GND RSATA_TXP4 RSATA_TXN4 GND RSATA_RXP4 RSATA_RXN4 GND GND RSATA_TXP3 RSATA_TXN3 GND RSATA_RXP3 RSATA_RXN3 GND These connectors support Native Command Queuing (NCQ), Power Management (PM) Implementation Algorithm, Hot Swap and smart setup. 2-32 Chapter 2: Hardware information