is half building a pc bad?

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hey,

im just wondering since my RAM is arriving tomorrow/ Saturday, if half building, installing the hard drive, optical drive and SSD into the case would be a bad idea? would the parts be damaged by leaving them in a case for a few days?

thanks

side note: do the fans that came with the case install into the mobo or the psu?
Also is it ok, since my mobo only came with 2 SATA cables and i have a SSD, HDD an optical drive, i unplug the HHD while installing windows from the optical drive than un-plug the optical drive to carry on using the HDD
 
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if the fans have molex pins, then they would need to be connected to psu, however if they are 3 pin, you might as well connect them to your mobo, since you can get some speed information. and yes its fine to unplug your sata devices, they are hot-swappable, but to be safe, just turn of your PC before changing the configuration.
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if the fans have molex pins, then they would need to be connected to psu, however if they are 3 pin, you might as well connect them to your mobo, since you can get some speed information. and yes its fine to unplug your sata devices, they are hot-swappable, but to be safe, just turn of your PC before changing the configuration.
 
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yeah that would work just fine. it also removes confusion or the possibility of accidentally installing the os on the wrong drive.
 
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i believe he was talking about data cables, not sata power cables
 
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