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Chapter 1: Product introduction
Chapter 1
2. ASMedia
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Serial ATA 6 Gb/s connectors (7-pin SATA6G_E1-E2;
SATAEXPRESS_E1 [top])
These connectors connect to Serial ATA 6 Gb/s hard disk drives via Serial ATA 6 Gb/s
signal cables.
• ASMedia storage controller can only support AHCI mode.
• These SATA ports are for data drives only.
• The SATAEXPRESS_E1 connector can support one SATA Express device or two
SATA devices.