- Jun 27, 2014
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Hello, everyone
I wonder how many SATA power connectors I can attach to one cable from my PSU.
My PSU is DELTA 550W Platinum. (I don't think this brand is available in some places? Afaik, they do OEM mostly.) It's dual rail 12V and uses 18 AWG wires, here's a photo of the specification.
Don't panic, that's Simplify & Traditional Chinese.
I heard usually you can attach 4 connectors. Anyway, I have 4 HDDs and a Blue-Ray drive. An HDD draws 2~2.5A while powering up, but I don't know how much a DVD drive draws. I saw a post on Anandtech asking pretty much the same question, here's the link.
https://goo.gl/7VSXAE
Down below are not related to the main topic, warning ahead. But if you want to take some time to answer these tedious questions, thank you!
Also, what are the 3.3V cables for HDDs, is it for latency to spin up or...?
It seems that not many people sleeve their SATA power cables? And I suppose there's no way I can use the sleeveless method, but I guess a right adhesive would do the job.
I'm also curious about one thing if I insert my GPU in the first slot, it will block my SSD with a cool looking heatsink. Wouldn't it suck to just block the view? But insert it in the second slot is close to the PSU shroud which I assume make the airflow bad?
And why make the distance between each SATA power so long? For those who don't manage their cables? Are you willing to bend your cables that much to fit it into the case? Btw, it's MasterBox 5.
If you read all the way down here, Kudos! Thank you for taking your time for these again!
Cheers,
Derrick
Edit, pictures links... They were not showing. But now you can see them! Word choice, no one likes to be too repetitive!
I wonder how many SATA power connectors I can attach to one cable from my PSU.
My PSU is DELTA 550W Platinum. (I don't think this brand is available in some places? Afaik, they do OEM mostly.) It's dual rail 12V and uses 18 AWG wires, here's a photo of the specification.
Don't panic, that's Simplify & Traditional Chinese.
I heard usually you can attach 4 connectors. Anyway, I have 4 HDDs and a Blue-Ray drive. An HDD draws 2~2.5A while powering up, but I don't know how much a DVD drive draws. I saw a post on Anandtech asking pretty much the same question, here's the link.
https://goo.gl/7VSXAE
Down below are not related to the main topic, warning ahead. But if you want to take some time to answer these tedious questions, thank you!
Also, what are the 3.3V cables for HDDs, is it for latency to spin up or...?
It seems that not many people sleeve their SATA power cables? And I suppose there's no way I can use the sleeveless method, but I guess a right adhesive would do the job.
I'm also curious about one thing if I insert my GPU in the first slot, it will block my SSD with a cool looking heatsink. Wouldn't it suck to just block the view? But insert it in the second slot is close to the PSU shroud which I assume make the airflow bad?
And why make the distance between each SATA power so long? For those who don't manage their cables? Are you willing to bend your cables that much to fit it into the case? Btw, it's MasterBox 5.
If you read all the way down here, Kudos! Thank you for taking your time for these again!
Cheers,
Derrick
Edit, pictures links... They were not showing. But now you can see them! Word choice, no one likes to be too repetitive!
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