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 0+1, 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.

A8N-SLI SE

GNDRXN4_RSATARXP4_RSATAGNDTXN4_RSATATXP4_RSATAGND SATA4

GND RXN2_RSATA RXP2_RSATAGND TXN2_RSATA TXP2_RSATAGND

SATA2

GNDRXN3_RSATARXP3_RSATAGNDTXN3_RSATATXP3_RSATAGND SATA3

GND RXN1_RSATA RXP1_RSATAGND TXN1_RSATA TXP1_RSATAGND

SATA1

A8N-SLI SE SATA Connectors

The actual data transfer rate depends on the speed of Serial ATA hard disks installed.

The RAID drivers for Parallel ATA and Serial ATA RAID are not WHQL certified.

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