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When it comes to storage we can find Storage I/O for:

1 x UltraDMA133
6 x Serial ATA 300MB/sec with support for RAID 0, RAID1, RAID 0+1 and RAID5
1 x Floppy disk drive connector (yes some people do still use them, try flashing a graphics card or mobo BIOS for example!).

Pointed to the front (bent you might say) we see the two remaining SATA connectors and floppy connector. This way they are completely clear of extra-large video cards for better accessibility.

And to your left... the MCP (Southbridge) ventilator. Now this mainboard is good, plain and simple. That fan however is a POS. It is just too darn loud. This is the one thing that NVIDIA needs to replace. I can't believe that such a cheap component was used. We had two LT mainboards, and the sound level coming from both fans was the same. So that's not an isolated issue. It's just a noisy fan. I jammed all fans on the mainboard (including VGA) pointed my dBa meter at it (50 CM away) and it was showing a value of near 40 dBa. Not okay at all... for a 200 USD mainboard.

2 x PCIe x16, 1 x PCIe x8 Graphics expansion slot, 2 x PCIe x1, 2 x PCI, 2 x 32-bit PCI with support for PCI 2.1

Let's have a peek at the BIOS.