Asus RS100-E6 PI2, User Manual

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Chapter 4: Motherboard information 4-8
4.3 Internal connectors
1. Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1–4 [Red]; 7-pin SATA5–6 [Black])
Supported by the Intel
®
3420 chipset, these connectors are for the Serial ATA
signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk drives that allows up to 3Gb/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 configuration.
The actual data transfer rate depends on the speed of Serial ATA hard disks
installed.
2. Hard disk activity LED connector (4-pin HDLED1)
This LED connector is for the storage add-on card cable connected to
the SATA or SAS add-on card. The read or write activities of any device
connected to the SATA or SAS add-on card causes the front panel LED to
light up.