The Serial ATA connector is used to connect a Serial ATA I or Serial ATA II
device to the motherboard. These connectors support the thin Serial ATA cables
for primary storage devices. The current Serial ATA II interface allows up to
300MB/s data transfer rate.
There are ten Serial ATA connectors on the motherboard, The six black
connectors (SATA1~SATA6) from south bridge chipset that support RAID 0,
RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 0+1 and JBOD configurations and four connectors
(SATA7~SATA10) from JMicron’s JMB362.
SATA3 SATA5
SATA4
SATA6
SATA 1 (bottom)
SATA 2 (top)
SATA 9
SATA 10
SATA 8
SATA 7
Connector with eSATA support.
