Swaping sata ports

[Spartan18]

Hello All,

I'm thinking of buying the 500GB 840 EVO as a second ssd for my system.

My motherboard, an ASUS P8Z77-V DELUXE, has only two intel sata3 ports both of which are currently used by:

My ssd, an 840pro, which currently runs my OS

And my storage hdd, an wd caviar black.

I want to move the caviar black to an sata2 port so that i can have the new 840 evo on the sata 3 port. Will moving the caviar black to a sata2 port from the current sata3 one cause any problems, or will it mess up my letter assignment in any way? And is there anything i need to be careful for adding the new ssd? From what i understand i just install it and then allocate it through disk management in win 7.

My primary ssd that has the OS will remain as is in its current sata 3 port, this already has boot priority in bios.

Your advice would be very appreciated.

[kalniel]

Letter assignment may well shift around, but as you say you can use disk management to assign them back.

Should otherwise be fine.

[Macadee]

Maybe consider one of these : http://www.ebuyer.com/516960-seagate...ssd-st480hm000

[machapman]

I don't see why you should have a problem with what you are proposing.

[Bonebreaker777]

You should face no issues whats-o-ever.

Designation for the secondary SSD would be what? If performance is kept for the main OS drive, I would personally go for the driver with the best capacity/price ratio.

Seagate 600 Series 480GB 2.5inch SATA-III SSD for £159.99 <- seems to be a good price for an SSD. The extra £20 wouldn't warrant for the performance difference.