Old drives connected to 6gb Sata port

Working with a z87 g45 gaming
I have an old drive in my pc that I am replacing that has 300 gb of stuff that I use frequently.
Drive is Maxtor serial ATA 1.5 gb/s model 6L300s0
I was hoping to plug into Sata 5 port on the mb
1- Samsung ssd
2- WD blue 1tb
3- WD blue 1tb
4- blueray or DVD to be installed as soon as I buy one
5- 300 gb Maxtor????
I know it won't be as fast as the other drives but I'd still like to use it.
Any issues with this?

remember new drives need to be initialized and formatted and assigned driver letters before they will show up! as your 300GB one was showing as you had stuff on it and it had already been formatted and allocated partitions and initialized on another machine it will just have been auto imported and the ssd will have been activated during the OS installing phase so bothe where showing but the blank drives would not as they had not been activated properly and had no file format associated with them!
just remember in the future to look in disk manager to see if they are unallocated drives first as that is common on all new drives that the OS hasn't seen them and has no idea what to do yet as they have no FAT, FAT32 or NTFS file allocations yet!

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