ok. I did a quick google, and if this is an asrock motherboard then the A* ones are on their sata controller (whatever vendor they chose), I avoid all sata controllers that aren't made by Intel, AMD and/or LSI. Any of the other vendors that make only 2/4 port controllers are usually a disaster waiting to happen, so if the A* ones are a ASrock supplied sata controller and not an AMD/Intel or LSI then avoid that one as much as possible.
On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 7:42 PM Roger Heflin rogerheflin@gmail.com wrote:
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On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 3:00 PM Bob Goodwin bobgoodwin@fastmail.us wrote:
There are four SATA data connectors on a new main board. Usually I just plug in to them as convenient disregarding the numeric designations. Is there a proper order in which to connect two or three drives and what is it. Neither the board manual or my google searching have been any help. The connectors are labeled:
SATA3 _A1 SATA3_1 SATA3 _A2 SATA3_ 2
Can someone tell me what order to use them in or if it matters? They are labeled so it would seem there certainly must be a reason ...
order usually matters little.
Given there are only 4 I would expect them to be connected to the same sata device, but it could be that there are 2 2 port sata devices and the labeling denotes which of those 2 port devices they are connected to. The labeling is rather odd for it being 4 on the same device.
What is the part number of motherboard?