Motherboard SATA ports and Hard Drives?

Do the SATA ports of the motherboard support hard drives? If so what drives?
I just tried three different drives connected to the those ports. 2 drives would not allow me to even boot. 1 (the original MacPro drive) would allow me to boot but was freezing the computer.
I am booting off the regular drive connectors not the motherboard ports.
Doyle

You might, it is a tight fit getting those in, but I've done it twice now.
Or the external case and cables. I'm sure somewhere along the way I forgot to hookup the cables inside a drive case and had to make sure it was getting power, spinning up, and the data cable and jumpers (scsi) was set correctly.

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I need to upgrade my macbook's RAM and hard drive as after 3 yrs of use it is showing signs of aging.
I am novice in hardware stuff. I am planning on doing it entirely by myself and on tight budget will need to compare the prices across sellers and buy a suitable peice of kit. Please help
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Model Identifier:          MacBook5,2
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Number Of Processors:          1
Total Number Of Cores:          2
L2 Cache:          3 MB
Memory:          2 GB
Bus Speed:          1.07 GHz
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SMC Version (system):          1.38f5
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