February 15, 201313 yr As topic. I am planning a new build and the chassis will all be 8087 connections. I plan to buy a motherboard with a bunch of native SATA ports however it looks like the numbers wont divide by 4 ideally e.g. 6 x SATA3, 2 SATA2 Whilst this is a total of 8 it means two things, a single 4 port 8087 reverse breakout cable will be: 1. Mixed SATA2 and SATA3. 2. Mixed motherboard controllers Can anyone confirm if this is allowed and recommended? ta
February 18, 201313 yr As topic. I am planning a new build and the chassis will all be 8087 connections. I plan to buy a motherboard with a bunch of native SATA ports however it looks like the numbers wont divide by 4 ideally e.g. 6 x SATA3, 2 SATA2 Whilst this is a total of 8 it means two things, a single 4 port 8087 reverse breakout cable will be: 1. Mixed SATA2 and SATA3. 2. Mixed motherboard controllers Can anyone confirm if this is allowed and recommended? ta It makes no difference at all. You are limited by the disks themselves at roughly 100MB/s transfer rate, regardless of SATA cable rate.
February 18, 201313 yr Author Joe as always you are a star. I was less concerned about speed as I was if there was any internal cable wiring that caused gotchas when mixing specs. Brilliant thanks again
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