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Introduction
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S/PDIF is a standard audio file transfer format that trans-
fers digital audio signals to a device without having to be
converted first to an analog format. This prevents the
quality of the audio signal from degrading whenever it is
converted to analog. S/PDIF is usually found on digital audio equip-
ment such as a DAT machine or audio processing device. The S/
PDIF connector on the system board sends surround sound and 3D
audio signal outputs to amplifiers and speakers and to digital re-
cording devices like CD recorders.
(INFINITY NF SLI-M2/G and INFINITY NF
ULTRAII-M2 only)
Serial ATA is a storage interface that is compliant with SATA 1.0
specification. The system board supports 4 Serial ATA ports with
speed of up to 3Gb/s. Serial ATA improves hard drive performance
faster than the standard parallel ATA whose data transfer rate is
100MB/s.
INFINITY NFII-M2 and INFINITY NF4XII-M2 support speed of up
to 1.5Gb/s.
The NVIDIA nForce4 chip supports NVIDIA RAID (Re-
dundant Array of Independent Disk) that allows RAID
arrays spanning across 4 Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drives.
It supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1 and JBOD.
The Marvell 88E1115 Gigabit LAN chip supports up to
1Gbps.
IEEE 1394 is fully compliant with the 1394 OHCI (Open
Host Controller Interface) 1.1 specification. It supports up
to 63 devices that can run simultaneously on a system.
1394 is a fast external bus standard that supports data
transfer rates of up to 400Mbps. In addition to its high speed, it
also supports isochronous data transfer which is ideal for video de-
vices that need to transfer high levels of data in real-time. 1394
supports both Plug-and-Play and hot plugging.