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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] by default. If you intend to create a Serial ATA 

RAID set using these connectors, set the SATA Mode Selection 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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When using hot-plug and NCQ, set the type of the SATA connectors in the BIOS to 

. See section 3.6.3 PCH Storage Configuration for details.

SATA6G_3

GND

RSATA_TXP3

RSATA_TXN3

GND

RSATA_RXN3

RSATA_RXP3

GND

SATA6G_5

GND

RSATA_TXP5

RSATA_TXN5

GND

RSATA_RXN5

RSATA_RXP5

GND

SATA6G_4

GND

RSATA_TXP4

RSATA_TXN4

GND

RSATA_RXN4

RSATA_RXP4

GND

SATA6G_6

GND

RSATA_TXP6

RSATA_TXN6

GND

RSATA_RXN6

RSATA_RXP6

GND

SATA6G_1

GND

RSATA_TXP1

RSATA_TXN1

GND

RSATA_RXN1

RSATA_RXP1

GND

SATA6G_2

GND

RSATA_TXP2

RSATA_TXN2

GND

RSATA_RXN2

RSATA_RXP2

GND

A

A

B

B

Z97M-PLUS

Z97M-PLUS SATA 6.0Gb/s connectors

M.2 Socket 3 shares the bandwidth with SATA ports 5 and 6. To ensure that the M.2 

PCIe device is working properly, SATA ports 5 and 6 are disabled. See section 3.6.3 PCH 

 of this user guide for more details.