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AustinMS

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I currently have the:
WD Blue 1TB Desktop Hard Disk Drive - 7200 RPM SATA 6 Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5 Inch - WD10EZEX - OEM

I would like to get the:
SAMSUNG 850 EVO 2.5" 250GB SATA III 3-D Vertical Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-75E250B/AM

I would like to know:
Will I need to purchase additional cables or am I able to run off the same cables that the HDD runs on? By the way, I plan on using these both together.
 
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The SATA cable is the data cable. The one going to the motherboard. You'll need 2 of those, one for each.
The cable coming from the PSU usually has more than one part you can plug in, so just plug one of those in to the HDD and the other to the SSD.

You should probably have extra SATA cables, since the motherboard usually comes with plenty.
You could throw that in to your order if you need it: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812422636&cm_re=sata-_-12-422-636-_-Product
 
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That SSD DOES NOT include cables, I own two of them and a 500GB and it arrives OEM bare in a retail box and lately with a partition copying boot CD in response to mass negative feedback of buyers unwilling to download a modified copy of Macrium (Samsung also used Acronis) and burn ISO's.

You'll love the performance, there are tons of threads on SSD optimization but the Samsung EVO's will profoundly improve your life whether you tune it or run it ready.

 
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My motherboard came with two data cables. Each cable has three connectors.

Can I put my CD reader on the same one as the HDD and have the SSD on its own? Or can you not connect an HDD And CD?
 
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I only use laptops and remotely manage servers so SATA cables are dimensionally different in my world.
But on even an antiquated SATA 2 inside a 2008 ThinkPad x200 because I prefer swivel pen tablets for pixel editing PhotoShop and SonyVegas, I still glean 215Megabyte per second transfers on just a dual core/8GB 2nd gen 64bit CPU.
I use EWF to protect myself from two odyssey weekends lost annually to Microsoft customary crashes, failed fixes and profane reinstalls.
Cleaved this 250 into a 20GB Win 8.1 boot/EWF partition and 100GB data side.
The remaining space is left unallocated until the day I've burned out the front side and will be used for the drives "second life" even after TRIM has done its best and I'll allocate then migrate Windows to the last half.
On this older system, the performance is indiscernible from a less expensive Transcend 370, that drive doesn't look slower until installed inside a modern SATA III controller but still imperceptible w/o benchmarking tools or dog hearing.
 
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