Asus P10S WS - Internal Connectors

ASUS P10S WS
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Chapter 1
1.2.9 Internal connectors
1. Intel
®
C236 Serial ATA 6 Gb/s connectors (7-pin SATA6G_1-8)
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
conguration with the Intel
®
Rapid Storage Technology enterprise (Intel
®
RSTe)
through the onboard Intel
®
C236 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 3.6.4 PCH Configuration for details.
• Before creating a RAID set, refer to section 5.1 RAID configurations or the manual
bundled in the motherboard support DVD.
• These SATA ports are for data drives only.
• M.2_1 shares SATA ports with SATA6G_5.
• M.2_2 shares SATA ports with SATA6G_6.