SATA Devices & cables

bobabry

bobabry

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Buying new mobo, internal hard drive and optical drive, do any of the devices ship with SATA cables or do I need to add them to my order?

Are all SATA III cables backwards compatible?

Thanks

Bry5
 
The motherboard will come with the cables needed for SATA devices, I assume your not buying from the clearance section.
 
Thanks guys, that leads me on to another question though -

I want to buy the Asus M4A78LT-M, the OCUK specs shows it supports SATA 6GB/s but the ASUS website says 3GB/S and I can spot any revision in the BIOS history.

So if I buy this Mobo and a 6GB/S hard drive and optical drive, could I end up being restricted to 3GB/s because the MOBO doesn't support higher speeds?
 
Seems Ocuk have got the description wrong, Are you looking at a SSD or mechanical hard drive? If the latter then done't worry regards 6gb/s models as they can't saturate 3gb/s speeds let alone 6.
 
One minor word of warning, some video cards overhang some SATA slots on some motherboards, so it may be worth getting a couple of right angle SATA cables if you're buying a big video card (nvidia 570 for example).

However as has been said, any motherboard normally comes with at least 2 standard SATA cables :)
 
Werewolf said:
One minor word of warning, some video cards overhang some SATA slots on some motherboards, so it may be worth getting a couple of right angle SATA cables if you're buying a big video card (nvidia 570 for example).

However as has been said, any motherboard normally comes with at least 2 standard SATA cables :)
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Looking at the picture of that motherboard all the SATA connectors are along the bottom edge so you'll be fine using standard cables as long as you don't buy a massive 3 slot graphics card.
 
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