SOLVED Does SATA port matter for SSD?

[HankB]

I've got a shiny new SSD inbound and want to take best advantage of it in my signature rig. The mobo is an MSI 880GMA-E45 which uses an AMD 880G chipset.


I wonder if all SATA ports are equal (or if some are more equal than others. ) I've got a couple of hard drives and a smaller SSD along with a DVD drive that are using SATA. I'm wondering if I should just grab the next open SATA connector or if there is any benefit to selecting a particular arrangement.

The specs for the chipset list 6 SATA ports so I suppose all 6 mobo ports are on the chipset vs. some on chipset and others on a secondary controller.

Any RAID I implement will be using Linux MD so that's not an issue. And AFAIK I can boot from any drive so not an issue there either. (Might need the bootloader on the first drive to get past the BIOS.)

I recall with IDE that devices which shared a cable were master and slave and mixing them the wrong way could compromise performance. (I always tried to stick with one device/connection.) I'm unaware if there are any similar considerations WRT SATA. I don't think so but it doesn't hurt to ask.

Thanks!

 

[MattNo5ss]

All of your SATA ports are SATAIII on the SB850 Southbridge, so they should all perform the same.