Sata ports

[Elonn]

Hello

I am almost done building a pc I have 1 HDD and 1 SSD I was wondering does it matter which sata ports I use on the motherboard?

Im using the z370 Asus Prime A II

[spartaman64]

no

[Elonn]

Asked because I saw some guides on youtube (first time building) most of them said check MOBO manual to know which ones to use first since it might boost the speed slightly.
But I cannot find that on the manual, guess It doesn't make any difference 

[spartaman64]

1 minute ago, Elonn said:

Asked because I saw some guides on youtube (first time building) most of them said check MOBO manual to know which ones to use first since it might boost the speed slightly.
But I cannot find that on the manual, guess It doesn't make any difference 

some older motherboards have both sata 3 and sata 2 ports but the z370 doesnt

[Kedohawyr]

It matters if your motherboard is old enough to still have a mix of SATA2 and SATA3 ports, SATA2 ports will bottleneck an SSD. Your motherboard has all SATA3 ports so it makes no difference.

[manikyath]

it doesnt, but it's good practisce to plug them in according to desired boot order, since that also gives it the best chance of bios resets (if they're ever necessary) to not screw up your propper boot order.

 

this actually would have saved me a lot of time at some point. couldnt figure out why after a bios reset my computer kept hanging on boot.. turns out it was trying to boot off of an old backup instance on my HDD, rather than the SSD. have since swapped the cables around and things are more reliable now. (aside from my NIC somehow insisting on booting from LAN before booting from SSD)