It also would put an end to GPU power cable melting ... to match the motherboard and GPU, but that's nitpicking. With these three major components and equipping M.2 rather than SATA SSDs (there ...

Use a Motherboard With Backside Power Connectors ... mounting a SATA SSD or HDD means you’ll have two cables—the power and SATA cable—sticking out of the drive, messing up the visuals.

These relatively low-power ... had one SATA port from the factory. [Jan] wanted to add another as this would make the device more useful as a network attached storage server. The motherboard ...

There is no need for a master or slave distinction with SATA drives because they each connect to the motherboard with their own SATA cable. Two IDE/PATA drives, on the other hand, could share the ...