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Hi, I have a bit of a stupid question. I'm attempting to add a hard drive cable to the motherboard. Which blue SATA slot should use? Or is it either one? I've attached an image.

 

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Hi:

 

The dark blue port is if you use the SATA drive as a boot drive.

 

The light blue port is for the secondary hard drive.

 

I see you have a M.2 SSD installed which I assume is the boot drive, so you probably would want to plug the SATA drive data cable into the light blue SATA port so as not to confuse the PC's Windows boot manager.

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Hi:

 

The dark blue port is if you use the SATA drive as a boot drive.

 

The light blue port is for the secondary hard drive.

 

I see you have a M.2 SSD installed which I assume is the boot drive, so you probably would want to plug the SATA drive data cable into the light blue SATA port so as not to confuse the PC's Windows boot manager.

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