Im just building a new pc for a friend, and this is the 1st time ive actually built one with SATA........
On the motherboard, there are four SATA2 Ports:
Port 2 - Red
Port 3 - Orange
Port 0 - Blue
Port 1 - Black
I will be putting a 320Gb SATA2 hard drive in, and two SATA optical dries in.
Does it matter which Ports go with which drive?? I.e. Hard drive would be best on Port 0, one optical drive on Port 1, one optical drive on Port 2??????
Also, when I 1st fire the machine up, do you have to do anything in BIOS etc seens im using SATA, or is it just the same as using IDE cables?
On the hard drive, there is a jumper which is currently set at 1.5Gb/s.....but looking at the hard drive lable, without the jumper it says 3Gb/s...........so surely its better taking it off?? (seagate hard drive)
Yes. Providing your motherboard supports SATA2. :)
the jumper is there for compatibility with SATA1.
Cool, cheers!! Makes sense now youve said actually!!
Any ideas on which ports to use for what??
I dont think it matters what port you use for what.
The bios should be set to detect SATA drives but if it doesnt there should be an option to turn SATA on.
Nice one. Suppose if it doesnt work I can always swap them over!
Makes absolutely no difference which port you plug it into.
Yes it isnt like the Master/Slave of IDE.
Cool, cheers guys :) Never really read about SATA etc, so thought id ask 1st.
The only time it is ever going to be usefull to care about which port you plug it into is if you have some large raid array of some sorts. IE If it says disk 3 in the array has failed and you set it up on port 3 then its going to be a lot easier to identify it.
I see, cheers Cypher. Im only using one hard drive, so should be ok :lol: