I'm reading that this MB has 4 white SATA ports and 2 black ones. I only see two of each. Where are the other two?
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Dude you're blind or what? Is 4 Ports SATA! 2 BLACK AND 2 WHITE... YOU DON'T SEE THAT?! Ahhhh I have that MOBO. Is Good i Recommend this Product.
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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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You need to power the card. I bought two 4 port cards and powered them off the SATA power in bay 4. They work flawlessly on my 5,1 under 10.8, 10.9 and Windows 7.
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It has them in the front on the top of case. It has two usb 2.0's and two usb 3.0'sThen of course the rest are on the MoBo that you choose.
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The RAM, no: it's welded to the motherboard. The SSD, yes, but it's an mSata, not a normal Sata.
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It attached to my mobo fine. I don't remember specifically but I think it does. I remember that I had to buy additional sata connections. I think this has IDE connectors. It has worked fine since I installed. The old one failed and took me a couple of weeks to determine that my machine would not boot due to its failure.
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It's a typo on Amazon. The drive is SATA III. Hardly any drive are SATA III anymore. Click here -&gt; http://www.wdc.com/global/products/specs/?driveID=1049&language=1
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No, I don't think so as the only connecting cable uses a specific USB 3.0 motherboard-capable connector. I do not remember seeing any ports for SATA connectivity.
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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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find a different mobo.theses have bad sata controllers.i warrentied mined 6 months after getting it and this one the sata ports only work if hdd is on one and dvd etc. on 4-6. too much of a hassel to warrenty out again.
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E-sata appears not to support PM. I just tried a Thermaltake BlacX Duet which requires a port multiplier and it only saw the first drive. Oh well.
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The PSU is not standard, 14 pin connector to MB. No SATA cables neither from PSU, the HHDs are powered by proprietary cabled plugged into MB.
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Yes, it comes with SATA cables. Don't pair this MB with a cheap power supply, get a good one, for plug-in/configurable SATA power feeds.
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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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I won't remove the port to measure them. But I installed it perfectly in a Mid-tower case using a mATX Gigabyte motherboard. The USB 2.0, USB 3.0, power and SATA cable were long enough. The shortest one in fact was the power one but it was also the closest to the power supply unit so it wasn't a problem.
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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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If you mean the SATA version support, it looks like it is Sata 3. The drives I have connected to this unit are showing 5.8Gb/s speeds.
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There are three modular connectors. Each cable that can be attached has three individual sata connectors on it approximately 1.5" apart.