Hard Drive Help
Hey guys,
I've bought a 2TB SATA hard drive but it seems my PC doesn't have any more power connections spare (I'm guessing it's the power cable that has about 4 ports on for connecting on SATA devices).
What do I need to do to get the hard drive working? Is there any way I can add another power connection or anything like that?
Sorry if this is already asked somewhere, couldn't find it.
Many thanks,
-Matt
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or this
links purely for images, have not searched for the cheapest (_;)
Edited By: aardvarking on Oct 10, 2010 14:45: .
Or these if you have a spare molex connection - 120623430435
(ebay auction numbers)
Edited By: dh058977 on Oct 10, 2010 14:46: ***
I thought I had a decent idea of what I needed to do, but I don't, lol.
The first picture shows some spare ports, not sure if those are the ones you guys are referring to or not. Second picture shows the SATA power connection going in to one of my hard drives. If I bought a "SATA Power Splitter Cable" could I just split one of the connections that are already in use?
Many thanks,
-Matt
If that is your spare port in the second picture? (think you have your pictures confused lol) then this ebay auction is the thing you need - 120623430435
Will that give enough power and not compromise anything like transfer speed or anything like that for the SATA drive?
Thanks a lot for all the help :)
No everything will be fine. That cable is simply to feed power to the drive, the actual sata cable will deal with everything else (transfers etc)
Have just ordered a cable now :)
The 2tb won't have but some did have 4 pin molex as well as sata
Edited By: dontasciime on Oct 10, 2010 18:21: a
Drive was recognised, formatted it and it worked.. For a few mins!
After rebooting I kept getting this message:
Does that basically mean by drive is buggered?
Many thanks,
-Matt
Except you stated SATA hard drives don't use molex for power. So maybe don't make a statement that is not true then I or anyone else that knows better won't mention it.
Edited By: dontasciime on Oct 17, 2010 16:33: a
Even the op did not know which power cable to use on the 2tb as there were unaware of the difference between molex and sata power connectors only thing they could see where lots of cables coming from the psu.
Edited By: dontasciime on Oct 17, 2010 16:40: a
http://www.impactcomputers.com/hds722525vlsa80.html
6Y120M0 are still being sold as well http://www.pcupgrade.co.uk/productdetails.asp?productid=241&categoryid=124
dm9
More and more sata connectors are normal on psu's now and consumers now need sata rather than ide/ and sata power has replaced 4 pin molex for hdd use as the norm now.
That is was what they needed to buy (was never in question)
Cheers :)
Cheers :)
Disable S.M.A.R.T in the BIOS and see what happens.
If it is your sata hdd then the sata controller might not be handling the hdd correctly eg listing it as sec master is not normal (some early controllers named them like this via bios though when in ide mode fm). change sata cable / port.
Which motherboard / model number have you got ?
Edited By: dontasciime on Oct 17, 2010 17:44: a
Cheers :)
Disable S.M.A.R.T in the BIOS and see what happens.
Wasn't aware there was a section for this in the bios, Cheers!
If it is your sata hdd then the sata controller might not be handling the hdd correctly eg listing it as sec master is not normal (some early controllers named them like this via bios though when in ide mode fm). change sata cable / port.
Which motherboard / model number have you got ?
It's a 2TB SATA drive. I've tried using the MOLEX thing to split an IDE to power the SATA.
My motherboard is (I think!) an ASUS P5Q-E