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

Supported by the NVIDIA® nForce4™ chipset, these connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk drives that allows up to 3Gb/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 S/W RAID 5 configuration.

SATA1 SATA2

K8N-DL

K8N-DL SATA connectors

GND RSATA_TXP1 RSATA_TXN1 GND RSATA_RXN1 RSATA_RXP1 GND

SATA3

GND RSATA_TXP3 RSATA_TXN3 GND RSATA_RXN3 RSATA_RXP3 GND

GND RSATA_TXP2 RSATA_TXN2 GND RSATA_RXN2 RSATA_RXP2 GND

SATA4

GND RSATA_TXP4 RSATA_TXN4 GND RSATA_RXN4 RSATA_RXP4 GND

Important note on Serial ATA

The actual data transfer rate depends on the speed of Serial ATA hard disks installed.

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