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Which port to install Optical Drive?

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The board Fatal1ty Z97 Professional has  6 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s Connectors by Intel® Z97 and  2 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s Connectors by ASMedia ASM1061, support NCQ, AHCI.

I want to install my optical drive which is an LG Blu Ray player.The specs of the board doesn't say no atapi devices supported.Will the sata 3.0 ports work for my optical drive?And what cable do i need?

Because the mobo came with 4 sata 3.0 6gbs cables......

 

Appreciate some advice

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It doesn't matter where you plug it into. As long as it's a SATA port ;)

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The board Fatal1ty Z97 Professional has  6 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s Connectors by Intel® Z97 and  2 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s Connectors by ASMedia ASM1061, support NCQ, AHCI.

I want to install my optical drive which is an LG Blu Ray player.The specs of the board doesn't say no atapi devices supported.Will the sata 3.0 ports work for my optical drive?And what cable do i need?

Because the mobo came with 4 sata 3.0 6gbs cables......

 

Appreciate some advice

It doesn't matter because the optical will never saturate a sata lane. Plug it into the closest or most convenient port
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