CIARA
Horizon D10500 / T10500
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4.5 The PCI Express and PCI bus
The board has the following add-in card connectors :
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One PCI Express 3.0 x16 connector.
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One PCI Express 3.0 x4 connector.
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One conventional PCI connector.
4.6 Disk drives
4.6.1 Serial ATA interface
The board provides four Serial ATA (SATA) 6.0 Gb/s connectors which support one device per connector.
4.6.1.1 Serial ATA support
The PCH provides independent SATA ports with a theoretical maximum transfer rate of 6.0 Gb/s for six ports.
The underlying SATA functionality is transparent to the operating system. The SATA controller can operate in both legacy and native
modes. In legacy mode, standard IDE I/O and IRQ resources are assigned. In Native mode, standard PCI Conventional bus resource
steering is used. Native mode is the preferred mode for configurations using the Windows® 10 operating system.
For more information, see :
NOTE
Many Serial ATA drives use new low-voltage power connectors and require adapters or power supplies equipped with low-voltage
power connectors
.
4.6.1.2
M.2 slots
CIARA Horizon D10500 / T10500 system is equipped with two M.2 slot (M key) 3
rd
generation, type 2242/2260/2280/22110 storage
devices support (SATA & PCIe x4 mode) and one M.2 slot with E key, type 2230 for Wi-Fi devices.
4.6.2 Optical drives
The CIARA Horizon D10500 / T10500 model may be supplied with a SATA DVD drive. The DVD drive is a half-height 5-¼ inch wide
storage device, capable of holding 4.7 to 8.5 Gigabytes of data. The system may be equipped with either a DVD-ROM drive, a DVD
writer, a Blu-ray drive or Blu-ray writer.
