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Sata Power cable adapter question
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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On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:43:36 +0000 (UTC), root
wrote: 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? 3.3V |
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Sata Power cable adapter question
Mike Paff wrote:
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:43:36 +0000 (UTC), root wrote: 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? 3.3V Thanks. The molex-sata power adapters don't have 3.3v then. Do SATA drives need 3.3v? See my next post for explanation. |
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Sata Power cable adapter question
En el artículo , root
escribió: Thanks. The molex-sata power adapters don't have 3.3v then. Do SATA drives need 3.3v? Yes. But if they are fed 5v they will use that and convert it down internally. As you surmised, a 4-pin Molex has 12v (yellow), two 0v (black) and 5v (red). A SATA power connector has an additional 3.3v wire (orange). What you MUST NOT do, if the drive has both Molex and SATA power connectors on the back is connect both. Either is fine but never both. -- (\_/) (='.'=) (")_(") |
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Sata Power cable adapter question
I just read that other thread. If both connectors were used disregard
what I said. J |
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