SATA ports - numbering

[Turbonium]

My motherboard doesn't specify which SATA port is which.

It just has 2 blue ones, and 2 black ones. I know the blue ones are 6 Gbps, and the black ones are 3 Gbps, but I don't know which is port 0 and 1 (blue pair), and port 2 and 3 (black pair).

Is the one away from the motherboard the higher number, and the one closer to the motherboard the lower number?

 

[Steltek]

What make and model of motherboard do you have?

 

[Turbonium]

Intel DH77KC

 

[Steltek]

The SATA6g port 0 is the blue port on the outside edge of the motherboard at the bottom, while port 1 should be on the top. SATA Port 2 is the black SATA3g port on the outside edge of the motherboard at the bottom, while SATA port 4 should be the black port on top. Port 5 is the grey port just behind the SATA4 port.

http://download.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/dh77kc/sb/dh77kc_configlabel.pdf

 

[Turbonium]

Hmmm.

Which one should I be connecting a lone optical drive to? Does it really matter if it's port 2 or 3?

If it matters: my system configuration is 2 HDDs (RAID 0) and 1 optical drive.

 

[Steltek]

Hmmm.

Which one should I be connecting a lone optical drive to? Does it really matter if it's port 2 or 3?

If it matters: my system configuration is 2 HDDs (RAID 0) and 1 optical drive.

I edited my answer above about the ports. Port 0 should be the bottom blue SATA port (didn't think about the port orientation being parallel to the surface of the board instead of vertical to it, like Port 5) with SATA1 being on top.

If it were me, I'd plug it in to SATA port 5 (the gray one) since you aren't using an mSATA card. The only ports you definitely don't want to plug it in to are the blue 6G ports.