Giga-Byte Communications MD30-RS0, User Manual

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A RAID 0 or RAID 1 configuration requires at least two hard drives. If more than two hard drives
are configured, the total number of hard drives must be an even number.
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A RAID 10 configuration requires four hard drives.
(Note) When a RAID configuration is built across the SATA 6Gb/s channels, the system performance of
the RAID configuration may vary depends on the devices are connected.
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G.QBOFM
12/13) SATA0/SATA1/SATA2/SATA3/SATA4/SATA5
(SATA 6Gb/s Connectors/SATA0 Support SATA DOM Function)
14) SSATA0/SSATA1/SSATA2/SSATA3 (SATA 6Gb/s Connectors)
The SATA connectors conform to SATA 6Gb/s standard and are compatible with SATA 3Gb/s and
1.5Gb/s standard. Each SATA connector supports a single SATA device.
Please see page 34 for SATA DOM jumper setting.
SATA0
SATA1
SSATA1
SSATA3
SSATA0
SSATA2
SATA3
SATA4
SATA5
Pin No. Definition
1 GND
2 TXP
3 TXN
4 GND
5 RXN
6 RXP
7 GND
Normal Mode :
Pin No. Definition
1 GND
2 TXP
3 TXN
4 GND
5 RXN
6 RXP
7 P5V
SATA DOM Mode :
SATA2
15/16) SSATA_SGP/SATA_SGP (SATA SGPIO Headers)
SGPIO stands for Serial General Purpose Input/Output which is a 4-signal (or 4-wire) bus used between
a Host Bus Adapter (HBA) and a backplane. Out of the 4 signals, 3 are driven by the HBA and 1 is driven
by the backplane. Typically, the HBA is a storage controller located inside a server, desktop, rack or
workstation computer that interfaces with Hard disk drives (HDDs) to store and retrieve data.
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Pin No. Definition
1 DATAIN
2 No Pin
3 DATAOUT
4 GND
5 GND
6 LOAD
7 NC
8 CLOCK
SATA_SGP
SSATA_SGP