SATA Connections ?

[Crisis uk]

I've just ordered a SSD to use as my boot drive and a few games etc. When i was looking at available SATA ports i noticed that in the top SATA port there are 2 SATA data cables running from them to a small circuit board type thing which also has a power connection to it.

This board sits on the back part of my bottom drive bay. When i removed the drive bay to see if it goes anywhere, all i could see was 2 ports that had no leads or anything attached to it. Apart from the SATA data cable and a power cable, its not actually attached to anything else.

Does anyone have any idea of what this is?

http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa126/Liamcairney/20150128_204553.jpg

 

[Guest]

its a removable hardrive bay for hotswapping , you can disconnect it if you want , mind plug your ssd into sata 0 or 1 , the intel ports not any other brand as they not full speed

 

[Crisis uk]

its a removable hardrive bay for hotswapping , you can disconnect it if you want , mind plug your ssd into sata 0 or 1 , the intel ports not any other brand as they not full speed

When you say the intel ports, do you mean the SATA 6Gb/s ports?

 

[Guest]

yes they might be a different colour like two white and 4 blue or something like that

 

[Crisis uk]

yes they might be a different colour like two white and 4 blue or something like that

Sorry to be a pain but are you talking about the dark blue SATA ports on my mobo?

http://www.asus.com/uk/Motherboards/P8Z77V/