Asus K8N4-E DELUXE User Manual

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Dual RAID solution

Onboard RAID controllers provide the motherboard with dual-RAID
functionality that allows you to select the best RAID solution using Serial
ATA devices.

The NVIDIA

nForce™4-4X chipset allows four Serial ATA hard disks with

RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 1+0, and JBOD configurations. See section “5.4.2
NVIDIA

RAID configurations” for details

The Silicon Image Sil3114 RAID controller supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID
0+1, and RAID 5 configurations for four Serial ATA hard disks. See page
2-23 and section “5.4.3 Silicon Image RAID configurations” for details.

Gigabit LAN

The motherboard comes with a Gigabit LAN controller built into the
NVIDIA

nForce™4-4X chipset to meet your growing networking needs.

The controller uses the PCI Express segment to provide faster data
bandwidth for your Internet, LAN, and file sharing requirements. See page
2-18 for details.

IEEE 1394a support

The IEEE 1394a interface provides high-speed and flexible PC connectivity
to a wide range of peripherals and devices compliant to IEEE 1394a
standards. The IEEE 1394a interface allows up to 400 Mbps transfer rates
through simple, low-cost, high-bandwidth asynchronous (real-time) data
interfacing between computers, peripherals, and consumer electronic
devices such as camcorders, VCRs, printers,TVs, and digital cameras. See
pages 2-18 and 2-28 for details.

USB 2.0 technology

The motherboard implements the Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0
specification, dramatically increasing the connection speed from the
12 Mbps bandwidth on USB 1.1 to a fast 480 Mbps on USB 2.0. USB 2.0 is
backward compatible with USB 1.1. See pages 2-19 and 2-25 for details.