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2 or 4 Sata connectors on mobo?

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Name: skuliaxe
Date: August 30, 2004 at 02:37:34 Pacific
Subject: 2 or 4 Sata connectors on mobo?
OS: winXPpro
CPU/Ram: 2.8 Ghz / 1Gb
Comment:

I have a GA-8KNXP motherboard and one 200Gb SATA HD.
Now i´m thinking of adding 2 Sata HD (1.200gb 7200Rpm and 2.74Gb 10000Rpm)

So here is the Question: On Gigabyte site it says that the motherboard has...

"Internal I/O Connectors

4 x Serial ATA connectors"

But aren´t those 2*S0 and 2*S1 connectors? (One of the wich for Raid something?) Or can I connect 4xSata drives all in all?
I couldn´t find a good picture of this...but I think that on the motherboard the connectors were named diffrently.

Bad pic:
http://www.pcguide.com.au/Reviews/Motherboard/gigabyte_ga-8knxp/images/botcb.jpg
But I think it says SATA S0 on 2 of them...And SATA S1 on the 2 others.

Also...if I can connect these 3 SATA i´m thinking of getting, could I Raid the 2 200Gb ones, while the 3rd (Raptor) is running normally?


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