Serial ata connectors, 5 serial ata connectors -17, Hardware setup – Intel AW8D User Manual

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2.5.5 Serial ATA Connectors

Each SATA connector serves as one single channel to connect one SATA device by a thin SATA
cable.

The disk array for RAID configuration is also provided through these SATA connectors:

• SATA1~SATA4: Available for RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, or RAID 10 configuration by the

utility “Intel Matrix Storage Manager”.

• SATA5~SATA6: Available for RAID 0 or RAID 1 configuration by the utility “Sil3132 SATA

RAID Driver”.

For more information on how to configure the function mode for SATA, please refer to the item
“On-Chip SATA” in the BIOS menu of “On-Chip IDE Device”.

SATA signal cable (optional)

SATA power cable (optional)