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3.3.
3.3.
3.
Serial ATA connectorsSerial ATA connectors
Serial ATA connectorsSerial ATA connectors
Serial ATA connectors
(7-pin SATA1, SATA2, SATA3, SATA4)(7-pin SATA1, SATA2, SATA3, SATA4)
(7-pin SATA1, SATA2, SATA3, SATA4)(7-pin SATA1, SATA2, SATA3, SATA4)
(7-pin SATA1, SATA2, SATA3, SATA4)
Supported by the NVIDIA
®
nForce™ 4 standard chipset, these
connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA hard
disk drives that allows up to 1.5Gb/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.
Important notes on Serial ATAImportant notes on Serial ATA
Important notes on Serial ATAImportant notes on Serial ATA
Important notes on Serial ATA
•
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
SATA SATA
SATA SATA
SATA 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
NVRAIDNVRAID
NVRAIDNVRAID
NVRAID
ConfigurationConfiguration
ConfigurationConfiguration
Configuration sub-menu item in the BIOS. See section “2.4.3 Onboard
Devices Configuration” on pages 2-24 and 2-25 for details.
A8N-E
®
A8N-E SATA connectors
SATA
1
SATA2
GND
RSATA_TXP4
RSATA_TXN4
GND
RSATA_RXN4
RSATA_RXP4
GND
GND
RSATA_TXP3
RSATA_TXN3
GND
RSATA_RXN3
RSATA_RXP3
GND
GND
RSATA_TXP2
RSATA_TXN2
GND
RSATA_RXN2
RSATA_RXP2
GND
GND
RSATA_TXP1
RSATA_TXN1
GND
RSATA_RXN1
RSATA_RXP1
GND
SATA
3
SATA4