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so as some of you may have heard there's been lots of hubbub all over the Internet's about this but Intel's Sandy Bridge chipsets that is the P 67 and H 67 chipsets are affected by a bit of an issue that can cause the SATA to three gigabit per second ports on your motherboard to degrade slowly over time and then die okay so basically right now if you look around on the major retail sites you probably can't buy a Sandy Bridge board looks like it's probably gonna be around the April May time frame before you can actually buy a Sandy Bridge board but I'm going to show you guys if you already have a system based on P 67 or H 67 chipsets how you can prevent this issue from affecting you in the near term while you wait for the replacement boards to come on the market and for yours to be swapped for one okay so you can see right here the way I have my Sandy Bridge system set up is that I have my two SATA 2 devices that is my DVD burner as well as my Intel X 25 M SSD plugged into these two ports so you can see right here that these are SATA 3 g5 SATA 3 g6 SATA 3 g3 and SATA 3 g4 so what I'm going to do and you're going to need to consult the manual of your particular motherboard find the section about the internal i/o connectors and which ones are which in this case they are labeled on the board and you are gonna want to take those ports unplug them from any devices and plug them into one of the SATA 3 6 gigabit per second ports on your board so in this case these two are running off the Intel chipset and those are still okay even though they're running off the same chipset as the SATA 2 3 gigabit per second ports and I could also plug them in to these ones which are running off of a third-party chipset so any one of these 4 ports is fine to run my devices off of in the meantime now bear in mind that Intel recommends our Intel advises that the SATA 2 gigabit per second ports are more likely to die from heavy use so by avoiding using those ports or let's say for example you have a three drive configuration you have an SSD a hard drive and you have an optical drive and you only have to say that three six gigabit per second ports well Intel recommends you lightly use the SATA 2 ports if you have to so you take your SSD in your hard drive and you plug them into these ones so you don't get any data corruption or potentially even data loss by using the good save a three six gigabit per second ports and then you take your optical drive which unless you're burning a DVD which probably is a very low risk sort of thing if something goes wrong so you take any sort of non-critical devices and plug those into the SATA to three gigabit per second ports so thank you for checking out my video today on Linus tech tips and don't forget to subscribe