Chapter 4: Motherboard Information
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4.4 Internal connectors
1. Serial ATA 6.0Gb/s connectors (7-pin SATA5-6 [Gray])
Supported by the Intel
®
C242 chipset, these connectors are for the Serial ATA signal
cables for Serial ATA hard disk drives that allows up to 6Gb/s of data transfer rate.
If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10,
or RAID 5 conguration.
2. Mini-SAS HD connector (ISATA1)
This motherboard comes with a mini Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) HD connector,
the storage technology that supports Serial ATA. The connector supports up to four
devices.
• The actual data transfer rate depends on the speed of Serial ATA hard disks installed.
• When the M.2 connector is operating in SATA mode, SATA connector 5 and 6
(SATA 6 Gbps_5-6) will be disabled.