Asus A8N-E SAT A, ASUS A8N-E, NVRAID Configuration, 3 . Serial ATA connectors, Important notes on Serial ATA, A8N-ESATA connectors SATA4 SATA3

3 . Serial ATA connectors(7-pin SATA1, SATA2, SATA3, SATA4)

Supported by the NVIDIA® nForce™ 4 standard chipset, these connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk drives that allows up to 1.5Gb/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 SAT 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 NVRAID Configuration sub-menu item in the BIOS. See section “2.4.3 Onboard Devices Configuration” on pages 2-24 and 2-25 for details.

GND

RSATA RXP2

RSATA RXN2

GND

RSATA TXN2

RSATA TXP2

GND

GND

RSATA RXP1

RSATA RXN1

GND

RSATA TXN1

RSATA TXP1

GND

A8N-E

SATA2

SATA1

GND

RSATARXP4

RSATARXN4

GND

RSATATXN4

RSATATXP4

GND

GND

RSATARXP3

RSATARXN3

GND

RSATATXN3

RSATATXP3

GND

A8N-E SATA connectors SATA4 SATA3Important 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.

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