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Chapter 1 – Asus X79-DELUXE User Manual

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Chapter 1: Product introduction

Chapter 1

4.

Intel

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Serial ATA 3Gb/s connectors (7-pin SATA3G_3-6 [black])

These connectors connect to Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard disk drives and optical drives via

Serial ATA 3Gb/s signal cables.
If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10

configuration with the Intel

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Rapid Storage Technology through the onboard Intel

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X79

chipset.

These connectors are set to [AHCI Mode] by default. If you intend to create a serial

ATA RAID set using these connectors, set the SATA Mode item in the BIOS to [RAID

Mode]. Refer to section 3.6.4 SATA Configuration for details.

Before creating a RAID set, refer to section 5.1 RAID Configurations or the user

manual bundled in the support DVD.