6 Things to Know About the Gigabyte Z690 AORUS ELITE SATA Ports

All six SATA ports run through the chipset This means they don’t steal PCIe lanes from the primary GPU slot, so your graphics card keeps full bandwidth.

You get six SATA 6Gb/s ports total That’s a generous count for a modern motherboard, especially if you still use multiple mechanical hard drives.

No SATA ports share bandwidth with the M.2 slots Unlike some boards, using M.2 drives won’t disable any of these SATA ports.

The ports support RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10 Intel Rapid Storage Technology is available for those who want to stripe or mirror drives.

Port placement is standard All six are right-angled and located along the board’s right edge, making cable management straightforward.

You won’t need SATA port multipliers With six ports, most users can connect all their drives directly without extra hardware.