New computer build - SATA question

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<p>I will be getting an SATA motherboard along with a SATA DVD drive and SATA internal Hard drive. This is my first system build in like 4 years and have never worked with SATA.. Always been IDE.</p><p>On the MB the SATA ports are listed as: SATA-0, SATA-1, SATA-2, SATA-3, SATA-4 and SATA-5</p><p>Should I hook the hard drive (Boot drive) up to SATA-0 and the DVD drive on SATA-1 or does it even matter?</p><p>Will I need to jumper the two drives to indicate which one is master or slave?  or are they terminated like SCSI?</p><p>Any help would be greatly appreciated.</p><p>Thanks in advance..</p>

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<p><cite>Talsmar@Crushbone wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I will be getting an SATA motherboard along with a SATA DVD drive and SATA internal Hard drive. This is my first system build in like 4 years and have never worked with SATA.. Always been IDE.</p><p>On the MB the SATA ports are listed as: SATA-0, SATA-1, SATA-2, SATA-3, SATA-4 and SATA-5</p><p>Should I hook the hard drive (Boot drive) up to SATA-0 and the DVD drive on SATA-1 or does it even matter?</p><p>It does not matter which ports you use.</p><p>Will I need to jumper the two drives to indicate which one is master or slave?  </p><p>No jumpers with SATA. Unless your selected drive has a jumper to lock it at 1.5 Gbps or 3.0Gbps.</p><p>or are they terminated like SCSI?</p><p>No they do not need to be terminated.</p><p>Any help would be greatly appreciated.</p><p>Thanks in advance..</p></blockquote><p>Answers inline.</p><p>Silat of Nagafen</p>

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<p>Good deal.. Appreciate the quick turnaround..</p>