ASUS RS500A-E6/PS4 Manuel D’Utilisation

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Chapter 4: Motherboard information

4.3

Internal connectors

1. Serial ATA connectors

(7-pin SATA1, SATA2, SATA3, SATA4; RED)

(7-pin SATA5, SATA6; Black)
Supported by the AMD

SP5100 chipset, these connectors are for the Serial

ATA signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk drives that allows up to 3Gb/s of

data transfer rate.

2. SAS connectors

(7-pin SAS1, SAS2, SAS3, SAS4; Red)

(7-pin SAS5, SAS6, SAS7, SAS8; Blue)
This motherboard comes with eight (8) Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) connectors,

the next-generation storage technology that supports both Serial Attached

SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA). Each connector supports one device.

• These connectors function only when you install a PIKE RAID card.
• Connect the SAS hard disk drives to SAS connectors 1–4 (red) when

installing a 4-port PIKE RAID card.