sata drives help?

eggybob · 4 Jul 2011 at 21:51

i have ordered my new motherboard ram and processor. i just wanted to know with regards to sata drives. i have 2 300gb drives that came in my old prebuilt system so ive never touched them really. i wanted to know with Asus P8P67-M Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 MicroATX Motherboard it has sata 3gb and 6gb but how will i go about installing my 2 sata drives when i get to it? im ok with most other stuff and im sure its relativly straight forward but i would like some advice please.

TNGL · 4 Jul 2011 at 21:54

I'm not sure if I've quite fully understood your question. If you mean installing them on to the motherboard, then all you do is get a SATA cable and connect that to the hard drive and to one of the sata ports on the motherboard. You'll also have to have a PSU with SATA power cables, otherwise you'll have to get a molex to sata power cable in order to power the drive.

RJC · 4 Jul 2011 at 21:55

Will these just be used as storage?

Just plug them into the sata 2 ports on the board and windows should pick them up.

andy_mk3 · 4 Jul 2011 at 21:55

Plug them into any SATA port, SATA3 (6gbps) only really matters for SSD's, it wont make a difference for your drives.

stulid · 4 Jul 2011 at 21:56

Just add a power connector and a SATA cable between the motherboard and the drives.

TNGL · 4 Jul 2011 at 21:57

Also you may have to go into computer management --> disk management and initialize the drives and make some other changes to them.

eggybob · 4 Jul 2011 at 22:01

thanks, i was just kinda confused as to the differences from 3gb and 6gb.

if i plug them into the 3gb ports i should be ok?

i think one is master and has my os on and main storage and the other is just a slave and for storage. will they still just connect to 3gb ports and power badda badda boom?

andy_mk3 · 4 Jul 2011 at 22:03

eggybob said:
thanks, i was just kinda confused as to the differences from 3gb and 6gb.

if i plug them into the 3gb ports i should be ok?

i think one is master and has my os on and main storage and the other is just a slave and for storage. will they still just connect to 3gb ports and power badda badda boom?

Yup. Plug them into any port.

stulid · 4 Jul 2011 at 22:03

Is there anything on them you want to keep? if not, then just format everything.

eggybob · 4 Jul 2011 at 22:08

stulid said:
Is there anything on them you want to keep? if not, then just format everything.

yeah ill be formatting and installing win 7 64bit over my current vista ultimate os. so im sure it wont matter where they are plugged in.

stulid · 4 Jul 2011 at 22:13

Get em in, during the Win7 install, one of the first options is to do a custom install (unless you are doing an "upgrade"?), this then shows the drives and partitions, just delete everything.

Continue the install and it will either show the second drive as D: or you may have to go into Disk Management and create a partiton/logical drive, then it will show up.