Installing and Configuring the NVIDIA nForce 650i Ultra Motherboard

Note: If an ATA-66/100 disk drive and a disk drive using any other IDE transfer protocol are attached to the same cable, the maximum transfer rate between the drives may be reduced to that of the slowest drive.

Connecting Serial ATA Cables

The Serial ATA II connector is used to connect the Serial ATA II device to the motherboard. These connectors support the thin Serial ATA II cables for primary storage devices. The current Serial ATA II interface allows up to 300MB/s data transfer rate.

There are four serial ATA connectors on the motherboard that support RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 0+1 and JBOD configurations.

SATA 4

SATA 3

SATA 2

SATA 1

GND GND GND

TX+ RX+

TX- TX-

1.Connect the locking cable end to the motherboard connector.

2.Connect the end without the lock to the drive.

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Nvidia 650I manual Connecting Serial ATA Cables