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

Supported by the NVIDIA® nForce4™ 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 SATA 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 “4.4.3 Onboard Devices Configuration” on pages 4-24 and 4-26 for details.

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GND RSATA_RXN4

RSATA_RXP4

GND RSATA_TXN4

RSATA_TXP4

GND

 

 

GND RSATA_RXN3

RSATA_RXP3

GND RSATA_TXN3

RSATA_TXP3

GND

SATA4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SATA3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GND RSATA_RXN2

RSATA_RXP2

GND RSATA_TXN2

RSATA_TXP2

GND

 

 

GND RSATA_RXN1

RSATA_RXP1

GND RSATA_TXN1

RSATA_TXP1

GND

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SATA2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SATA1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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.

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