I just finished a build with an Zenith II Extreme Alpha. I have two M.2 SSDs mounted in the two slots on the motherboard. I also have a 12TB hard drive connected to the motherboard via a SATA cable. (No RAID.)

My question is: Which of the 8 SATA ports on the motherboard should I connect the hard drive to so that 1) there is no address/port conflict between the hard drive and either SSD and 2) I get the maximum performance from the hard drive?

(Four of the SATA ports are labeled SATA6G_1, SATA6G_2, etc. The other four are ASMedia labeled SATA6G_E1, SATA6G_E2, etc.)

Thanks!