ASUS SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2/USB 3.1 Fascicule

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Chapter 1: Product introduction

These connectors connect to Serial ATA 6.0 Gb/s hard disk drives via Serial ATA 6.0 

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 Mode]. 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.