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| RandomPrecision Senior Member Enjoy! 8175 Posts 3/06 |  Posted - Nov 7 2011 : 5:30AMAre plugged into? I have two internal SATA drives. One 320 (which contains Vista OS) and a one TB storage drive. My MB has four SATA ports. When I bought my newest drive, I ended up disconnecting the cable for the old drive for some reason and forgot which port it was plugged into. At some point, I saw where the system was reporting that the 320 drive was the second drive and the storage drive was drive one. Is this going to slow things down or are they just numbers?  [Link] |
| BYOB_Kenobi Senior Member “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” - Kierkegaard 2684 Posts 8/09 | Posted - Nov 7 2011 : 6:39AM If I remmeber correctly No. As long as your HD and cable work it shouldn't. Go into BIOS after post and you'll see if you changed SATA port, it'll just register and show up in another port. Only time where you want to make sure of SATA ports is when you are using SATA III/6Gbps drives and MB ports (usual only have a couple of SATA-3 ports on motherboards, but usually different color).  [Link] |
| RandomPrecision Senior Member Enjoy! 8175 Posts 3/06 | Posted - Nov 9 2011 : 3:08AM Edited by - randomprecision on 11/9/2011 3:20:07 AM [Link] |
| JohnW Senior Member 1351 Posts 6/08 | Posted - Nov 27 2011 : 5:10PM If your boot order screws up when you move things around or get new drives, you can select which drive to boot from in the BIOS. The only other thing to keep in mind with regards to which SATA port to use is to avoid using 3rd party ports added to the motherboard (at least until the others are full). These typically have lower performance and higher cpu usage than Intel's SATA ports. However if you have an older, cheaper motherboard I doubt there's any additional ports on it. [Link] |
Bob  All-Star Member 5516 Posts 3/03 | Posted - Nov 27 2011 : 8:31PM +1 [Link] |
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