Does It Matter Which SATA Ports You Use?

5-Port SATA III 6Gbps PCIe x4 Host Card sata 3 slot SATA III is a third generation SATA interface, and it runs at s, although the actual bandwidth throughput is up to 600MBs, due to 8b10b sata m2 slot Ideally you want your drives to be plugged into the fastest sata channels available, so if the motherboard has designated sata slots at

sata 3 slot SATA ports should you plug an NVME in each of the sockets Worst case is use one of the 3 PCIe x16 slots for an add-in SATA controller card