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9) GSATA3 6/7 (SATA 6Gb/s Connectors, Controlled by Marvell
®
88SE9172 Chip)
The SATA connector conforms to SATA 6Gb/s standard and are compatible with SATA 3Gb/s and SATA
1.5Gb/s standard. Each SATA connector supports a single SATA device. The Marvell
®
88SE9172 chip
supportsRAID0andRAID1.RefertoChapter3,"ConguringSATAHardDrive(s),"forinstructionson
conguringaRAIDarray.
8) SATA3 0/1/2/3/4/5 (SATA 6Gb/s Connectors, Controlled by Intel
®
Z87 Chipset)
The SATA connectors conform to SATA 6Gb/s standard and are compatible with SATA 3Gb/s and SATA
1.5Gb/s standard. Each SATA connector supports a single SATA device. The Intel Z87
®
Chipset supports
RAID0,RAID1,RAID5,andRAID10.RefertoChapter3,"ConguringSATAHardDrive(s),"forinstruc-
tionsonconguringaRAIDarray.
• ARAID0orRAID1congurationrequiresatleasttwoharddrives.Ifmorethantwoharddrives
are to be used, the total number of hard drives must be an even number.
• ARAID5congurationrequiresatleastthreeharddrives.(Thetotalnumberofharddrivesdoes
nothavetobeanevennumber.)
• ARAID10congurationrequiresfourharddrives.
Pin No. Denition
1 GND
2 TXP
3 TXN
4 GND
5 RXN
6 RXP
7 GND
Pin No. Denition
1 GND
2 TXP
3 TXN
4 GND
5 RXN
6 RXP
7 GND
5 3 1
4 2 0
7
6
SATA3
GSATA3
7 1
17
7 1
17