SATA um can someone help ?

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Okay so I'm about to build a PC and I have everything figured out besides the SATA and where I put by booting up SSD, my HDDs, and my blu ray drive.

Here is the list of SATA ports on my board

-1 x SATA Express port, compatible with 2 x SATA 6.0 Gb/s ports
1 x M.2 Socket 3, , with M Key, type 2260 storage devices support (both SATA & PCIE mode)
4 x SATA 6Gb/s port(s), red
Support Raid 0, 1, 5, 10
Supports Intel® Smart Response Technology, Intel® Rapid Start Technology, Intel® Smart Connect Technology *3
ASMedia® SATA Express controller : *4
1 x SATA Express port, compatible with 2 x SATA 6.0 Gb/s ports
ASMedia® ASM1061 controller : *4
2 x SATA 6Gb/s port(s), red

 
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Your best SATA ports are going to be the ones from the chipset the 4 red SATA 6Gb's ports from there move your less important devices to the ASMedia ports. Usually the built in SATA controller is faster than the add-on ones although not by a large margin but SSD's would be the devices effected the most by this small difference. On another note though depending on the BIOS/UEFI it may be better to have your boot devices on the Intel ports because some BIOS/UEFI won't boot from add-on chips. Although this issue seems to be less prevalent today but some boards still do this.

NOTE: The SATA express port(s) will be the fastest ones on your system but only for devices that support SATA Express. Not to mention the M.2 socket but again only if...
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Your best SATA ports are going to be the ones from the chipset the 4 red SATA 6Gb's ports from there move your less important devices to the ASMedia ports. Usually the built in SATA controller is faster than the add-on ones although not by a large margin but SSD's would be the devices effected the most by this small difference. On another note though depending on the BIOS/UEFI it may be better to have your boot devices on the Intel ports because some BIOS/UEFI won't boot from add-on chips. Although this issue seems to be less prevalent today but some boards still do this.

NOTE: The SATA express port(s) will be the fastest ones on your system but only for devices that support SATA Express. Not to mention the M.2 socket but again only if you have a SSD that uses that interface.
 
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