SATA Devices & cables

bobabry · 20 Mar 2011 at 15:34

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

bobabry · 20 Mar 2011 at 16:20

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?

bobabry · 20 Mar 2011 at 16:28

Just mechanical so from what you say I would never have used 6gb anyhow. Thanks

bobabry · 20 Mar 2011 at 17:59

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).

Noted - thanks

bobabry · 20 Mar 2011 at 20:26

Surveyor said:
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.

Yeah I am only planning to go with a 460 so I don't envisage it being a problem.