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Chapter 1: Product introduction
Chapter 1
1.2.8 Internal connectors
1. Intel
®
Z87 Serial ATA 6 Gb/s connectors (7-pin SATA6G_1-6 [red])
These connectors connect to Serial ATA 6 Gb/s hard disk drives via Serial ATA 6 Gb/s
signal cables.
If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10
conguration with the Intel
®
Rapid Storage Technology through the onboard Intel
®
Z87
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 3.6.3 SATA Conguration for details.
• Before creating a RAID set, refer to section
5.1 RAID congurations or the manual
bundled in the motherboard support DVD.
• When using NCQ, set the SATA Mode in the BIOS to [
AHCI Mode]. Refer to section
3.6.3 SATA Conguration for details.
SATA 6 Gb/s port 5 will be disabled when M.2 slot on mPCIe Combo II is in use.