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H11SSL Motherboard Series User's Manual
Number of Supported Drives on Dierent Models
Types H11SSL-i H11SSL-C H11SSL-NC
SATA 16 8 8
SAS3 0 8 8
NVMe 0 0 2
L-SAS Ports (L-SAS0~L-SAS7), H11SSL-NC & H11SSL-C Only
The motherboard supports eight (8) SAS ports on two onboard connectors, L-SAS0~L-SAS3
and L-SAS4~L-SAS7. Connect hard drives to these SAS ports using a MiniSAS to 4 breakout
cable, one for each connector that supports up to four drives each.
SATA/SAS
Connectors
Pin Denitions
Pin# Signal
1 Ground
2 SATA_TXP
3 SATA_TXN
4 Ground
5 SATA_RXN
6 SATA_RXP
7 Ground
NVM Express
Connections Two NVM Express ports are located on the serverboard (one for each processor).
These ports provide high-speed, low-latency PCI-Exp. 3.0 x4 connections directly from the CPU
to NVMe Solid State (SSD) drives. This greatly increases SSD data-throughput performance
and signicantly reduces PCI-E latency by simplifying driver/software requirements resulted
from direct PCI-E interface from the CPU to the NVMe SSD drives.