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Storage connectivity then. SATA ports -- Gigabyte is equipping the board with a standard six SATA ports. These six are linked from the Intel PCH. The four white ports are SATA 3 thus 6 GBps so you can manage some seriously transfer speed with SSD and HDDs alright.
Ah let me just zoom in a little, the six SATA ports. The two black ones are SATA2, perfect for HDDs. Chipset:
- 4 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors (SATA3 0~SATA3 3) supporting up to 4 SATA 6Gb/s devices
- 2 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors (SATA2 4~SATA2 5) supporting up to 2 SATA 3Gb/s devices
In a perspective view we can see the two PCI-Express 3.0 x16 (mechanical) slots; two PCI-Express x1 slots and two PCI slots. Here we can also get a better look at the heatsinks the board uses. What I haven't mentioned just yet is that the motherboard makes use of an ATX form factor, that means it fits pretty much any chassis easily.
