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M3n78 se sata connectors – Asus M3N78 SE User Manual

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Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1, SATA2, SATA3, SATA4)
These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard disk

and optical disk drives. The Serial ATA 3Gb/s is backward compatible with Serial ATA

1.5Gb/s specification. The data transfer rate of the Serial ATA 3Gb/s is faster than the

standard parallel ATA with 133 MB/s (Ultra DMA133). If you install Serial ATA hard disk

drives, you can create a RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5, and JBOD configuration

through the onboard NVIDIA nForce 720D chipset.

Important note on Serial ATA
Install the Windows

®

XP Service Pack 1 before using Serial ATA.

• For detailed instructions on how to configure RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 0+1, RAID 5,

and JBOD, refer to the RAID manual in the support DVD.

• If you intend to create a Serial ATA RAID set using these connectors, set the SATA

Mode select item in the BIOS to [RAID Mode]. See page 2-11 for details.

SATA1

GN

D

RSATA_RXN1

RSATA_RXP1

GN

D

RSATA_TXN1

RSATA_TXP1

GN

D

SATA2

GN

D

RSATA_RXN2

RSATA_RXP2

GN

D

RSATA_TXN2

RSATA_TXP2

GN

D

SATA3

GN

D

RSATA_RXN3

RSATA_RXP3

GN

D

RSATA_TXN3

RSATA_TXP3

GN

D

SATA4

GN

D

RSATA_RXN4

RSATA_RXP4

GN

D

RSATA_TXN4

RSATA_TXP4

GN

D

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