it says there are 6 sata 3 ports but i only see 2. where are the others 4 at?
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2 sata 3 ports are facing up, the other 4 sata 3 ports are right next to those two they are just facing towards the front. That is becoming more common.
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This board requires four 4-pin ATA plugs. The board comes with the four 4-pin ATA plugs. Make sure your have a power supply that will accommodate these plugs. I had to buy adaptors (about $2 each) to plug into the SATA plugs.
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Nope you can use them all (I assume) at once. I've only used 4 out of the 5 at once, excluding the HDD dock. Oh and to correct my previous comment I opened up the case and checked to make sure and the HDD Dock and the USB ports connect through a different SATA ports. So the case will take up two SATA ports on your motherboard. Sorry for the confusion.
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Hmmm... I had the opposite problem when I put mine together. I found the data port (located in front left quadrant of mb), but discovered I needed to buy a molex to sata power conversion cable. to get power.
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USB likely feeds only the additional USB ports on the front. Device is Sata therefore using Sata for data transfer. Do you have a SATA port free. I didn't because my 6 Hardrives used them. I used a spare sata PCI card
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It comes with 2 sata 6 cables. you need 1 for each hard drive and one for each dvd drive if you only have one of each than you don't need anymore. there are only 2 sata 6 ports, and 4 sata 3 ports. sata 6 cables are backward compatible with 3
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I had 10 HDDs connected and every time it boots one or two drives were missing, I RMA'd it and tried another one, same exact issue. This board is having serious SATA issues. Got rid of it and went with different board.
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It has 4 cables: usb2.0, usb 3.0, sata, and 4 pin Molex. In order for it use all the ports you need to plug them in to the motherboard.
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Looking at the board , look to the left of the two visible white SATA ports , positions 2 & 3 . Positions 0 & 1 are in an opposed position . They are sideways . I don't know the reasoning for this but I suppose because gigabyte wants you to use position 0 for the primary hard drive and position 1 for the secondary hard drive or primary cd/dvd drive. The two white SATA ports facing up are your secondary SATA ports for additional drives.
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This is a USB3 HUB (it only "extends" USB3, NOT provide it)AND it has nothing to do with SATA so you will never need an SATA cable.It will plug into an existing USB3 socket OR comes with a 19 pin cable toconnect to a Mother Board socket or add-in card.PS: The product description leaves a lot to be desired.More pictures would be a big plus.
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Thanks for your information. I did also find out that there's a sata port intended for an optical drive. If so, then I can mount the SSD in that bay and still have all 4 bays for data. Now - does anybody know if the BIOS can handle 3TB drives without repartitioning?
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It has 8 SATA ports. SATA 1-6 (6GBs, By Intell Z87) and SATA 7-8 (6GBs, by ASmedia ASM 1061). Its Great Motherboard.
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Motherboards have sata ports, not cpu's, your question doesn't make any sense. I am not being mean, maybe you put your question in the wrong place, if it helps most motherboards have at least four and up, unless they are mini itx and then they usually have 2.
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It only comes with 2 sata connectors.All connectors are the 24 pin MB, 4 pin CPU, 3 molex, 2 SATA, and 1 floppy.
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I just used two...one powered the first three buttons and the other powered the other three. You can use either the 4 pin (ATA) or the SATA. If you are only doing two drives....just hook up one side (either 1,2,3 or 4,5,6).
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Download the motherboard manual (E7758v3.0.zip), look at page 1-2 "Package Contents". It shows 1 SATA Cable, 1 eSATA Power Cable, 1 SATA Power Cable, 1 USB 2.0 Bracket w/cable, eSATA Bracket w/cable
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The sata connectors will all be on a chain together, look on your hard drive and see the connector that is the largest slot? Find the cables that match the shape of the connector, remember don't force it too much, make sure you are inserting it the right way