K330 sata port question

Hello all, Im new to the forum and to Lenovo.
I bought a K330-77273GU last week.
I would like to add another HD and would like to know if the sata ports on the motherboard are 3 Mb/s or 6 Mb/s?
Two ports are red (being used for the current HD and CD drive) and the two spare ports are orange.
Thanks.

hey K330_Owner,
From : http://www.lenovo.com/psref/pdf/icbook.pdf
there will be two 3 Gb/s and two 6 Gb/s sata cables.
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But is it the HDD itself that fails at the higher frequency? Or is it the HDD controller on the motherboard that fails? What about DVD drives? And what if the HDD is SATA 300 instead of SATA 150?
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The specs are incorrect. All 4 SATA ports are the same and are SATA2.0 ports. I doesn't really matter what port you use, however I would put the main hard drive on #1, secondary HDDs on #2 and #3, and the CD/DVD on #4.
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Hey again
Umm alright I dont rly mind if I get either of the drive now. Just a quick question. When I built my rig I just attached the P-ATA HDD using a normal IDE cable and then when I booted I just installed windows xp via CD etc and it just detected my IDE HDD was there.
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Hitman47, welcome to the forum.
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Picking the right SATA ports for Hard Drives.

With in a week I'll be puting together my new system, I'm currently buying and ordering parts now.
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I just built my machine using the K8N Neo4 Platinum myself.
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www.xlr8yourmac.com its over my head but...
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in the P45 Zilent manual (http://eu.msi.com/index.php?func=downloadfile&dno=6946&type=manual), on page 2-13 (27 in PDF), there is a visualisation of SATA ports integrated on the motherboard. Unfortunatelly, it is not very clear to me the distribution of port numbers to the connectors. Would you write me a table, corresponding to the picture on page 2-13, which clearly states, which number goes to which "cell"?
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Quote from: NovJoe on 19-January-10, 23:10:18
I see. Can you list out your full system specs and PSU specs amps? For a start, you can try to use another SATA cable to see if it helps.
What is PSU? For change a cable, I would need to locate the problematic port / device first... that's why I have posted my original question.
/ As far as I remember, I have tried changing some cables and reconnect devices to another ports in the past. However, I do not remember more details. /
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T510 SATA Port

Hi,
I've not found official information about which type of SATA port does thte T510 has for the internal drive (not the media bay). Is it SATA 3 (6 GBs) or only SATA 2 (3 GB/s)
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Lenovo's personal system reference tabook says that iy's 3.0GB/s.
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K8N Neo4-F purple Sata ports not SATA2

OK, here's my question posted on MSI support webpage with their answer. This will clarify and shed light on the discussion about orange SATA ports being SATA1 and purple being SATA2.
Problem Description:
"My Mobo came with 4 purple Sata ports. Does that mean that it is Sata II? I ask because it is a Neo4-F mobo, supposedly not an Ultra chipset?
Thank you in advance,
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Our Answer
Dear Sir,
Thank you for your support. These 4 SATA port are SATA1 port not SATA2.
Regards
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Quote from: ak2000 on 21-June-07, 22:25:59
According to the product page http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func=proddesc&prod_no=249&maincat_no=1&cat2_no=171
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That's a question I have too.
"I have two of these boards, but I'm using a SATA II drive on only one of them. How could I tell if it's running at SATA II spec? Something listed at POST or in the OS? The PC isn't currently hooked up, otherwise I would look at it now."
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