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Why put a HDD in a Sata 6GB port and not a 3GB port?

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because you ran out

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Doesn't matter. It won't transfer at those speeds anyway.

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It just hit me I bought a pc last year and the guy who built it had both a HDD and a optical drive plugged in to both the Sata 6GB ports

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It just hit me I bought a pc last year and the guy who built it had both a HDD and a optical drive plugged in to both the Sata 6GB ports

it is not a big deal lol

 

 

 

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It just hit me I bought a pc last year and the guy who built it had both a HDD and a optical drive plugged in to both the Sata 6GB ports

If they're there, might as well use them.

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Was just curious, I'm getting two Samsung ssds and they're going in the 6GB ports so its cool to put the HDD in the 3GB port

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Was just curious, I'm getting two Samsung ssds and they're going in the 6GB ports so its cool to put the HDD in the 3GB port

Yes it is. SATA 6 Gb/s HDDs are as useless as USB3 mice.

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because you ran out

 No the Company who built it just had them plugged in there, I have a Asus P9X79 motherboard and have 2 Sata 6GB ports and 4 Sata 3GB ports.

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 No the Company who built it just had them plugged in there, I have a Asus P9X79 motherboard and have 2 Sata 6GB ports and 4 Sata 3GB ports.

it really doesnt matter, hdds are slow

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in a scenario where you have HDDs in a Raid, then it matters greatly for sequential read/writes

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