Ice_Blue Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 My motherboard has 6 SATA ports and 6 USB ports. Of the 6 SATA ports, 2 are SATA 3, and 4 are SATA 2. Of the USB ports, 2 are USB 3 and 4 are USB 2. My 2 questions are: Why not make all the ports the latest version? Price wise, what would be the difference? IMO a few (less than 10) dollars. So, since all of these ports are backward compatible, what do the manufacturers gain by putting 2 sets of ports, at different speeds? Wouldn't it be cheaper to just use 1 6-port chipset insteat of 2 different chipsets? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Moderator Posted December 5, 2013 Moderator Share Posted December 5, 2013 Read this post: https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1190227-why-make-usb-20-ports-in-new-motherboard/ It explains everything. That explains the USB part, but SATA should fall in the same trend. Ice_Blue 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ice_Blue Posted December 5, 2013 Author Share Posted December 5, 2013 Thanks. I searched, but came up with nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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