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Mike Paff Mike Paff is offline
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Default Sata Power cable adapter question

On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:43:36 +0000 (UTC), root
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I noticed that power supplies that provide SATA cables
have 5 wires going to the drive. In order the colors
are yellow-black-red-black-orange. The little cables
that connect to the IDE molex connectors have only
yellow-black-red-black. What is the orange wire for
in the power supply cable?


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