ASUS Z97-WS Manual De Usuario

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Chapter 1: Product introduction

These connectors connect to Serial ATA 6 Gb/s hard disk drives via Serial ATA 6 Gb/s 

signal cables.
If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10 

configuration with the Intel

®

 Rapid Storage Technology through the onboard Intel

®

 Z97 

chipset.

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These connectors are set to [AHCI Mode] by default. If you intend to create a Serial 

ATA RAID set using these connectors, set the SATA Mode item in the BIOS to [RAID 

. Refer to section 3.6.3 PCH Storage Configuration for details.

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Before creating a RAID set, refer to section 5.1 RAID configurations or the manual 

bundled in the motherboard support DVD.

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The M.2 Socket 3 and SATAEXPRESS_1 connectors share the same PCIe x2 

bandwidth. When you use both connectors, the system automatically detects the 

devices connected to these connectors and set a higher priority to M.2 Socket 3 than 

SATA_EXPRESS_1 interface. Refer to section 3.6.3 PCH Storage Configuration of 

this user guide for more details.

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The SATAEXPRESS_1 connector can support one SATA Express device or two 

SATA devices.

SATA6G_1

GND

RSATA_TXP1

RSATA_TXN1

GND

RSATA_RXN1

RSATA_RXP1

GND

SATA6G_3

GND

RSATA_TXP3

RSATA_TXN3

GND

RSATA_RXN3

RSATA_RXP3

GND

SATA6G_2

GND

RSATA_TXP2

RSATA_TXN2

GND

RSATA_RXN2

RSATA_RXP2

GND

SATA6G_4

GND

RSATA_TXP4

RSATA_TXN4

GND

RSATA_RXN4

RSATA_RXP4

GND

SATA6G_5

SATAEXPRESS_1

SATA6G_6

GND

RSATA_TXP5

RSATA_TXN5

GND

RSATA_RXN5

RSATA_RXP5

GND

GND

RSATA_TXP6

RSATA_TXN6

GND

RSATA_RXN6

RSATA_RXP6

GND

Floating

Device_Reset

GND

Detection