I have several SSD’s (SATA III)  in my PC, and hadn’t realized that the fact that I have them attached to my motherboard ports alongside SATA II HDD’s, that the slower communication protocol of the SATA II’s would limit the communication speed of my SSD’s.  So, what I would like to do is re-arrange the ports on my motherboard that are connected to my SSD’s and HDD’s to hopefully isolate the SATA II group from the SATA III.

 

When I re-arrange these drive connections to different ports, what effect will that have as far as driver letter and any other drive issues?  The most important I expect is if I re-arrange my SSD ( CJ that I boot to, and where Windows 8 is located…..  does BIOS boot to a drive letter, or to a physical drive number (related to which port the drive is connected to)?  (I expect the latter).  So I expect I would need to go into BIOS to re-configure the boot drive order.

 

This is one of those issues where I have a perfectly functioning PC that I don’t want to screw up-  but getting that faster SATA III communication speed is tempting….

 

Thanks for any advice,  Bruce.

For almost every motherboard designed for use with Win 7 or 8, there will be no effect on drive letters. If for some odd reason they do change, just go into Windows Disk Management and put them back to the original letters.

Thanks!