CPU/Mobo What is SATA_6G?

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I was cleaning the cabinet today and noticed that there are two empty slots, SATA_6G_1 and SATA_6G_2. What are they for? I have two HDDs, one normal Seagate and W.D Black, and both the black & white cables coming out from those (those which have a clip) have been plugged in to the SATA1 & SATA2 slots. Should they be altered to SATA_6G slots?
Please see the photos if my query is confusing. I have marked with red box and green arrows.
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ithehappy said:
I was cleaning the cabinet today and noticed that there are two empty slots, SATA_6G_1 and SATA_6G_2. What are they for? I have two HDDs, one normal Seagate and W.D Black, and both the black & white cables coming out from those (those which have a clip) have been plugged in to the SATA1 & SATA2 slots. Should they be altered to SATA_6G slots?
Please see the photos if my query is confusing. I have marked with red box and green arrows.
2hfhq40.jpg
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The black ports are SATA 3GBPS ports where as the white ports are SATA 6GBPS ports. You certainly need to change to white ports into improve your HDD bandwidth.
 
SATA 6G 1 & 2 means your Motherboard support Sata3 , which is the latest sata version upto 600MBps [600MBps is possible in realworks only with SSD AFAIK]
 
SATA has 3 revisions : SATA I, with speeds upto 1.5Gbps, SATA II - upto 3Gbps and SATA III - upto 6Gbps, hence also called SATA 6Gbps.

AFAIK, I dont know of any desktop class HDD which can exceed SATA I speeds ~ 150 MBps (SATA has an over head of 2B/10B - so 1.5Gbps translates to ~150MBps)

Some enterprise drives can exceed that bandwidth - Raptors

SSDs can use upto 6Gbps and still sometime exceed that - so they use PCI Express for the more expensive implementations.
 
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