Installing Hardrive and disk drive

[AaronSpooner]

Putting my hard drive and disk drive into my mother board and i noticed i had 4 Sata2 inputs, does it matter which i place them in, The main issue is 2 will get in the way of my graphics card, so i hope it does not matter.
Thank you
(as you can tell this is my first time doing much to a pc)

 

[Hawkeye22]

It shouldn't matter, but it's customary to put the boot/OS drive on SATA_0. Your motherboard manual should tell you if it's necessary to have the boot drive in a specific port.

 

[Y0GI]

Putting my hard drive and disk drive into my mother board and i noticed i had 4 Sata2 inputs, does it matter which i place them in, The main issue is 2 will get in the way of my graphics card, so i hope it does not matter.
Thank you
(as you can tell this is my first time doing much to a pc)

Usually, the lower the port #, the better. On your MB you'll find something like: SATA_0, SATA_1, SATA_2, etc. If you have an Intel chipset, the Intel SATA controller will likely be on the first few ports. These would be the preferred ports over others that may be on a third party controller, like Marvel.

What MB do you have?

Yogi

 

[AaronSpooner]

Putting my hard drive and disk drive into my mother board and i noticed i had 4 Sata2 inputs, does it matter which i place them in, The main issue is 2 will get in the way of my graphics card, so i hope it does not matter.
Thank you
(as you can tell this is my first time doing much to a pc)

Usually, the lower the port #, the better. On your MB you'll find something like: SATA_0, SATA_1, SATA_2, etc. If you have an Intel chipset, the Intel SATA controller will likely be on the first few ports. These would be the preferred ports over others that may be on a third party controller, like Marvel.

What MB do you have?

Yogi

the mother board is GA-H61M-DS2DVI.

 

[Y0GI]

Putting my hard drive and disk drive into my mother board and i noticed i had 4 Sata2 inputs, does it matter which i place them in, The main issue is 2 will get in the way of my graphics card, so i hope it does not matter.
Thank you
(as you can tell this is my first time doing much to a pc)

Usually, the lower the port #, the better. On your MB you'll find something like: SATA_0, SATA_1, SATA_2, etc. If you have an Intel chipset, the Intel SATA controller will likely be on the first few ports. These would be the preferred ports over others that may be on a third party controller, like Marvel.

What MB do you have?

Yogi

the mother board is GA-H61M-DS2DVI.

According to the specs: http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P8H61MX_R20/#specifications
That board has "Intel® H61(B3) chipset :
4 x SATA 3Gb/s port(s), blue"

So, all ports "Should" be equivalent, but I would follow Hawkeye22's advice: check your manual and favor the lower numbered ports for your HDD.

Yogi

Edit: I'm not sure how I got to the Asus site above for a Gigabyte MB. Here is the correct website: http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4403#sp
The advice is still the same, however.

Sorry for the mix-up.

Yogi