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Asus KCMA-D8 User Manual

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2. SAS connectors

(7-pin SAS1, SAS2, SAS3, SAS4; Red)

(7-pin SAS5, SAS6, SAS7, SAS8; Blue)
This motherboard comes with eight (8) Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) connectors,

the next-generation storage technology that supports both Serial Attached

SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA). Each connector supports one device.

• These connectors function only when you install a PIKE RAID card.
• Connect the SAS hard disk drives to SAS connectors 1–4 (red) when

installing a 4-port PIKE RAID card.