do drive sata cables need to plug into the motherboard in a specific pattern or will any of the 6 work

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@Kaffe Seems like you've gotten it figured out, but reading the manual is worth it because sometimes some of the SATA ports will be higher performance than others; that's the case on our motherboard, where some of them are apparently implemented over some kind of PCIe-to-SATA bridge that's built into the motherboard, and some of them are direct to the chipset. I think. We don't really know all the little details of computer architecture.

@Rosemary apparently i jst neeeded to ender legacy mode or whatever for it to recognize the drives

@Kaffe Or rather, we do know all the little details, but we don't know all the medium-scale details.

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