controllers are integrated into the X99 chipset, providing a total of up to ten ports for storage devices and supporting speeds of up to 6 Gbit/s per port, with hardware support for the
Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) logical interface. Each SATA port may be enabled or disabled as needed. Six SATA ports provided by the first controller may be configured for
Rapid Storage Technology (RST) 13.1, which supports
RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10 levels; additionally,
Smart Response Technology (SRT) disk caching allows the creation of
hybrid volumes. The X99 chipset supports
Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (Intel VT-d), which provides hardware support for
virtualization by implementing an
input/output memory management unit (IOMMU). The chipset also integrates a
Low Pin Count (LPC) interface, supporting
interrupt controllers, timers, power management,
super I/O,
real-time clock (RTC), etc. Integrated
Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) allows interfacing with devices such as
Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs) and
serial flash devices.
System Management Bus (SMBus) is also provided, with additional support for
I2C devices. == See also ==