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

Supported by the NVIDIA® nForce™ 4 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 3 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 “2.4.3 Onboard Devices Configuration” on pages 2-24 and 2-25 for details.

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A8N5X SATA connectors

 

 

GND RSATA_RXP4

RSATA_RXN4

GND RSATA_TXN4

RSATA_TXP4

GND

 

 

GND RSATA_RXP3

RSATA_RXN3

GND RSATA_TXN3

RSATA_TXP3

GND

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SATA4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SATA3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GND RSATA_RXP2

RSATA_RXN2

GND RSATA_TXN2

RSATA_TXP2

GND

 

 

GND RSATA_RXP1

RSATA_RXN1

GND RSATA_TXN1

RSATA_TXP1

GND

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SATA2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SATA1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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