4.NVIDIA® nForce® 590 SLI Southbridge Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1 [red], SATA2 [red], SATA3 [red], SATA4 [red], SATA5 [red], SATA6 [red])

These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s hard disk and optical disk drives. The Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s is backward compatible with Serial ATA 1.5 Gb/s specification.

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

1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5, or JBOD configuration through the onboard NVIDIA®

MediaShield™ controller.

The RAID function of these connectors is set to [Disabled] by default. If you intend to create a Serial ATA RAID set using these connectors, enable the RAID Enabled item in the SATA Configuration sub-menu in the BIOS. See section “4.4.7 Onboard Device Configuration” for details.

SATA5

GND TXP5_RSATA TXN5_RSATA GND RXP5_RSATA RXN5_RSATA GND

SATA6

GND TXP6_RSATA TXN6_RSATA GND RXP6_RSATA RXN6_RSATA GND

 

SATA3

TXP3RSATA TXN3RSATA RXP3RSATA RXN3RSATA

 

 

 

 

GND

GND

GND

M2N32 WS PRO

SATA1

 

 

 

 

 

GND

GND

GND

M2N32 WS PRO SATA connectors

RSATATXP1 RSATATXN1 RSATARXP1 RSATARXN1

 

 

 

SATA4

_RSATATXP4 RSATA_TXN4

_RSATARXP4 RSATA_RXN4

GND

GND

GND

SATA2

_RSATATXP2 RSATA_TXN2

_RSATARXP2 RSATA_RXN2

GND

GND

GND

ASUS M2N32 WS Professional

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