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

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 or RAID 1 configuration with the Adaptec® HostRAID Technology through the onboard Intel® 6300ESB integrated RAID controller.

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 “4.3.5 IDE Configuration” on for details.

NCLV-D

SATA2

GND

RSATA_TXP2

RSATA_TXN2

GND

RSATA_RXP2

RSATA_RXN2

GND

SATA1

GND

RSATA_TXP1

RSATA_TXN1

GND

RSATA_RXP1

RSATA_RXN1

GND

NCLV-D SATA connectors

(NCLV-DS model only)

NCLV-DS

SATA2

GND

RSATA_TXP2

RSATA_TXN2

GND

RSATA_RXP2

RSATA_RXN2

GND

SATA1

GND

RSATA_TXP1

RSATA_TXN1

GND

RSATA_RXP1

RSATA_RXN1

GND

NCLV-DS SATA connectors

ASUS NCLV-D Series

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