Asus A8N-SLI - Manual (Page 48)

2 - 2 2 2 - 2 2 2 - 2 2 2 - 2 2 2 - 2 2 C h a p t e r 2 : H a r d w a r e i n f o r m a t i o n C h a p t e r 2 : H a r d w a r e i n f o r m a t i o n C h a p t e r 2 : H a r d w a r e i n f o r m a t i o n C h a p t e r 2 : H a r d w a r e i n f o r m a t i o n C h a p t e r 2 : H a r d w a r e i n f o r m a t i o n
3 . 3 . 3 . 3 . 3 . S e r i a l A T A c o n n e c t o r s S e r i a l A T A c o n n e c t o r s S e r i a l A T A c o n n e c t o r s S e r i a l A T A c o n n e c t o r s S e r i a l A T A c o n n e c t o r s
( 7 - p i n S A T A 1 , S A T A 2 , S A T A 3 , S A T A 4 )
( 7 - p i n S A T A 1 , S A T A 2 , S A T A 3 , S A T A 4 ) ( 7 - p i n S A T A 1 , S A T A 2 , S A T A 3 , S A T A 4 ) ( 7 - p i n S A T A 1 , S A T A 2 , S A T A 3 , S A T A 4 ) ( 7 - p i n S A T A 1 , S A T A 2 , S A T A 3 , S A T A 4 )
Supported by the NVIDIA
® nForce™ 4 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 JBOD configuration that span across the Parallel
ATA drives. Refer to Chapter 5 for details on how to set up RAID
configurations.
I m p o r t a n t n o t e s o n S e r i a l A T A I m p o r t a n t n o t e s o n S e r i a l A T A I m p o r t a n t n o t e s o n S e r i a l A T A I m p o r t a n t n o t e s o n S e r i a l A T A I m p o r t a n t n o t e s o n S e r i a l A T A
• The actual data transfer rate depends on the speed of Serial ATA
hard disks installed.
• See Appendix for instructions on how to install the Serial ATA
extension module.
These connectors are set to S A T A S A T A S A T A S A T A S A T A by default. In SATA mode, you can
connect Serial ATA boot or data hard disk drives to these connectors. If
you intent to create a Serial ATA RAID set using these connectors,
enable the RAID function of each port from the N V R A I D
N V R A I D N V R A I D N V R A I D N V R A I D
C o n f i g u r a t i o n C o n f i g u r a t i o n C o n f i g u r a t i o n C o n f i g u r a t i o n C o n f i g u r a t i o n sub-menu item in the BIOS. See section “4.4.3 Onboard
Devices Configuration” on pages 4-24 and 4-26 for details.
A8N-SLI
®
A8N-SLI SATA connectors
SATA1 SATA2
GND RSA
T A_TXP4
RSA
T A_TXN4
GND RSA
T A_RXP4
RSA
T A_RXN4
GND GND RSA
T A_TXP3
RSA
T A_TXN3
GND RSA
T A_RXP3
RSA
T A_RXN3
GND
GND RSA
T A_TXP2
RSA
T A_TXN2
GND RSA
T A_RXP2
RSA
T A_RXN2
GND GND RSA
T A_TXP1
RSA
T A_TXN1
GND RSA
T A_RXP1
RSA
T A_RXN1
GND
SATA3 SATA4