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ASUS RAMPAGE IV BLACK EDITION
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Chapter 1
2. Intel
®
X79 Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s connectors (7-pin SATA3G_1; SATA3G_2;
SATA3G_3; SATA3G_4 [black])
These connectors connect to Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s hard disk drives and optical disc
drives via Serial ATA 3.0 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 through the onboard Intel
®
X79
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 3.6.5 SATA Conguration for details.
• Before creating a RAID set, refer to section
5.1 RAID congurations or the manual
bundled in the motherboard support DVD.