Asus E3746 STRIKER II EXTREME, STRIKER II NSE SATA connector, 2.Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1–6)

2.Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1–6)

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

If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0, RAID 1,

RAID 0+1, RAID 5, or JBOD configuration with the NVIDIA® MediaShield™ RAID controller.

• 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, enable the [RAID Enabled] item in the BIOS. See section 4.5.6 Serial-ATA Configuration for details.

•For RAID 5, use at least three hard disk drives. For RAID 0+1, use at least four hard disk drives. Use two to four Serial ATA hard disk drives for each RAID 0 or RAID 1 set.

•Before creating a RAID set, refer to 5.4.2 NVIDIA® RAID configurations or the manual bundled in the motherboard support DVD.

	SATA5		SATA6
GND		GND
RSATA_TXP5		RSATA_TXP6
RSATA_TXN5		RSATA_TXN6
GND		GND
RSATA_RXP5		RSATA_RXP6
RSATA_RXN5		RSATA_RXN6
GND		GND

	SATA3		SATA4
GND		GND
RSATA_TXP3		RSATA_TXP4
RSATA_TXN3		RSATA_TXN4
GND		GND
RSATA_RXP3		RSATA_RXP4
RSATA_RXN3		RSATA_RXN4
GND		GND

	GND	SATA1	GND	SATA2
STRIKER II EXTREME
	RSATA_TXP1		RSATA_TXP2
	RSATA_TXN1		RSATA_TXN2
	GND		GND
	RSATA_RXP1		RSATA_RXP2
	RSATA_RXN1		RSATA_RXN2
	GND		GND

STRIKER II EXTREME/

STRIKER II NSE SATA connector

You must install the Windows® XP Service Pack 1 before using Serial ATA hard disk drives. The Serial ATA RAID feature (RAID 0/RAID 1/RAID 5/RAID 10) is available only if you are using Windows® XP or later version.

	right angle side
Connect the right-angle side
of SATA signal cable to SATA
device. Or you may connect the
right-angle side of SATA cable to
the onboard SATA port to avoid
mechanical conflict with huge
graphics cards.

ROG Striker II Extreme / Striker II NSE 2-33