  [NAME]  SATA comes from the chipset PCH. 2 of the ports are sata 3 and the rest are sata 2. [URL] The defective chipset is the H61/H67 chipset used on XPS 8300, Vostro 460, Vostro 360, Inspiron One Optiplex 3010,  Aurora R3 etc.  intel 2011 chipset_design_flaw  [IMAGE]       [IMAGE] [IMAGE]  
Hi all,  I am doing some upgrades and some learning.  I am installing an additional HDD in my Optiplex 9010.  The original single HDD configuration has the HDD on SATA0 and the Optical drive on SATA1.  While poking around the internet I discovered that on this board SATA0 and SATA1 are SATAIII connectors and and SATA2 and SATA3 are SATAII.  With this in mind I believe my optical drive needs to be moved to SATA2 or SATA3 and the new HDD needs to be connected to SATA1.   My thinking is an optical drive does not operate at SATAIII speeds, therefore, the slower connection will not cause any performance issues.  Is this correct?
Optiplex 9010 SATA connections