3.ICH9R Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1 [red], SATA2 [red], SATA3 [black], SATA4 [black], SATA5 [red], SATA6 [red])

These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk drives.

You can create a RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 10 configuration using these connectors through the onboard ICH9R RAID controller. You can also create a RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 10 configuration using the Intel®

Matrix Storage Technology.

These connectors are set to Standard IDE mode by default. In Standard IDE mode, you can connect Serial ATA boot/data hard disk drives to these connectors. If you intend to create a Serial ATA RAID set using these connectors, set the Configure SATA as item in the BIOS to [RAID]. See section 4.3.6 SATA Configuration for details.

Before creating a RAID set, refer to 5.4.2 Intel RAID Configuration or the manual bundled in the motherboard support DVD.

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