« Reply #1 on: November 24, 2014, 05:43:02 am »
Your assumptions are correct. Connect your new SSD to SATA3 port if its a newer disk that supports this standard. Anything else, CD/DVD as well as eSATA can connect to SATA2 (ports 1-5)
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