2 SATA 600 for Optical Drives, WHY?

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I have a new Fujitsu motherboard with 2 SATA 600 and 4 SATA 300 connectors. The manual recommends the two faster SATA 600 to be connected to optical drives.

My boot drive is Intel SSD with SATA3 I just got another WD 4TB Enterprise drive for storage and it's also SATA3. Why would the manual recommends to connect optical drives to the faster SATAs. If I connect my SSD to SATA300 the speed would be slower also the same is valid for the SATA3 storage drive. What am I missing here? That's a second revision of the board that just came on the market at the end of September and supports one Xeon or one regular CPUs. What settings would you recommend?
 
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You're not missing anything. SSD for sure goes on S3. The other devices will not see much difference between S2 and S3. Xeon boards may assume that there will be significant data transfer via disc and therefore want opticals on the fastest ports.

Mark
You're not missing anything. SSD for sure goes on S3. The other devices will not see much difference between S2 and S3. Xeon boards may assume that there will be significant data transfer via disc and therefore want opticals on the fastest ports.

Mark
 
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Thanks Mark, it makes sense what you are saying.

Nick