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I currently have my HDD plugged into SATA 5 port, because when I was building my PC, that honestly looked like the first slot. Then I tried plugging it to the closest to the left one , and it appeared as sata 6 for some reason. I also want to buy an ssd soon so i really dont know if you have to plug them in the first slots or not.

 

I have a MSI B150 Gaming M3 mottherboard

 

any help is appreciated thanks

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As long as it is a Sata 3 (it should be labeled in the board or manual

) port it's fine.

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As long as it is a Sata 3 (it should be labeled in the board or manual

) port it's fine.

it says sata express, is that sata 3?

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it says sata express, is that sata 3?

You cannot use SATA express for a SATA 3 drive.

 

Don't worry.

 

Leave it alone.

 

It's different interface.

 

You can use the SATA express for SATA 3 drives.

 

Just not the smaller port.

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You cannot use SATA express for a SATA 3 drive.

Don't worry.

Leave it alone.

It's different interface.

Isn't effectively two Sata 3 ports so it should be fine if he plugged it into one of them?

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You cannot use SATA express for a SATA 3 drive.

 

Don't worry.

 

Leave it alone.

 

It's different interface.

yeah there's 1 sata 3 plug on the board, 1 sata 2 and then there's this bigger thing which says sata express which has 4 some weird connectors i have never seen before, and then 4 sata, which i assume is sata 3

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Isn't effectively two Sata 3 ports so it should be fine if he plugged it into one of them?

 

nvm, you can use that.

 

Sorry for wrong info.

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SATA-Express-connector-early-design-2.jp

 

Their interfaces are different.

yaeh i get that, theres 4 connectors i have never seen before and its followed by 4 normal satas , which i assume is sata 3

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yaeh i get that, theres 4 connectors i have never seen before and its followed by 4 normal satas , which i assume is sata 3

Sorry dude. I edited my post.

 

You can use the SATA express port for SATA 3 drives. Just not the far left one. Physically you can't plug a SATA 3 cable into that one.

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Sorry dude. I edited my post.

 

You can use the SATA express port for SATA 3 drives. Just not the far left one. Physically you can't plug a SATA 3 cable into that one.

so im good to go ? =)

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so im good to go ? =)

YEA.

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you want to make sure your drives are plugged into a sata 3 port, not sata 2, and you also want them to be INTEL sataa ports, not ones from a 3rd party controller like asmedia or whatever

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you want to make sure your drives are plugged into a sata 3 port, not sata 2, and you also want them to be INTEL sataa ports, not ones from a 3rd party controller like asmedia or whatever

Yep.

 

All the ports are SATA 3 ports on that motherboard.

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Yep.

 

All the ports are SATA 3 ports on that motherboard.

are they all intel?

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are they all intel?

Yes.

 

Here is the part of the manual of that motherboard.

 

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