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SATA Hard Disk/Optical Drive installation procedure

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by singlecoillover

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I'm building my Fiance a computer for christmas. This is the first time I've ever dealt with BOTH SATA optical drives, AND hard drives. I need to know which headers to connect which drives to.

From what I know of SATA, I'm assuming I should connect the drives like this:

SATA 0 - Hard Drive
SATA 1 - Primary CD Drive
SATA 2 - Secondary CD Drive
SATA 3 - Empty

Is this correct?

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by cookieorc

SATA takes care of the need of the old days of master and slave on parallel. Thats how I would set it up.

by baltimore jason

i just built a pc configured as
sata 0 -primary hdd
sata 1 -secondary hdd
sata 2 -optical
sata 3 -esata extension

works like a charm, but regardless, your bios should allow you to determine which sata header hosts the primary drive

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