User’s Manual

Table Of Contents
ASUS WS C246 PRO
1-13
Chapter 1
1.1.9 Internal connectors
1. Intel
®
Serial ATA 6 Gb/s connectors (7-pin SATA6G_1-8)
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
®
C246 chipset.
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 [Intel
RST Premium with Intel Optane System Acceleration(RAID)].
SATA6G_2 port shares bandwidth with M.2_1 socket. When M.2_2 slot runs in SATA
mode, the SATA6G_2 port will be disabled.