1.7.1 eSATA Support
The red eSATA connectors on the back panel can be used to connect an eSATA drive.
They can also be used for port replication, which allows the aggregation of multiple
hard drives on each of the eSATA ports. Figure 10 on page 42 shows the location of
the External SATA -compatible SATA ports on the back panel.
The Marvell 88E6145 controller uses the PCI Express bus for data transfer with a
theoretical maximum transfer rate of 3 Gb/s per port. These connectors are in
addition to the six SATA connectors of the PCH SATA interface.
To use the eSATA ports you must enable RAID support in the BIOS for the Marvell
discrete controller. The two internal ports can stay in the default IDE mode if RAID is
not required.
The discrete SATA interface supports the following RAID levels:
RAID 0