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Chapter 4: Motherboard Connections
4.6 Storage Ports
I-SATA 3.0 and S-SATA 3.0 Ports
The motherboard has eight I-SATA 3.0 ports (I-SATA 0-3, I-SATA 4-7) and six S-SATA
(S-SATA 0-3, S-SATA 4, S-SATA 5) on the motherboard. These SATA ports are supported by
the Intel PCH C621 chipset. S-SATA 4/S-SATA 5 can be used with Supermicro SuperDOMs
which are orange SATA DOM connectors with power pins built in, and do not require external
power cables. Supermicro SuperDOMs are compatible with regular SATA HDDs or SATA
DOMs that need external power cables.
NVMe Connectors
The motherboard offers the following NVMe headers.
P1-NVMe0/1 (one) – Supports two NVMe backplane ports
P1-NVMe3,4,5,6 (four) – Each supports one NVMe backplane port
P2-NVMe7,8,9,10 (four) – Each supports one NVMe backplane port
The P1 headers are supported by CPU1; the P2 headers are supported by CPU2.
The Ultra Riser card may offer two additional NVMe headers so that all twelve drives can
be NMVe.
Note
: Connect P1_NVMe0/1 first for your system to work properly.
