How Many SATA Cables Will I Need/ To Buy??

ninjanafi

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Here's my build:
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/n8mZGG

I've ordered all my parts but I'm just worried I may need to buy some extra SATA data and power cables. The motherboard has already arrived and it came with 2 SATA data cables. I assume I will need 4 SATA data and power cables for my
-SSD
-HDD
-Optical Drive
-GPu

I don't know much about SATA but I know that you need a power and data cable for each of those items (right??). So do each of the items like my hard drive when i receive it in the mail, COME with both SATA power and sata cables each in the box?
 
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SATA cables and drives:
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The larger one is power, directly off the PSU. Your PSU has plenty.
The smaller one is data. It may or may not be L shaped.

Since you have 2 that came with the motherboard, and 2 from previous...you have enough.

ninjanafi

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Sorry forgot to mention I had an optical drive that was from a previous PC. I actually have 2 SATA data cables from the old pc as well.

So is the L shaped SATA cable, like the one that comes towards you then just turns down, is that one the SATA power cable? Because on my old PC's cables I took out the L shaped cables both say SATA data cables.

I can't seem to find how many SATA power cables are on my PSU.

In my hard drive, it requires the L shaped SATA cable on the right then some bigger cable on the left, any clue what that is?

Sorry, this is my first time building a new PC, previous was a prebuilt!
 

USAFRet

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SATA cables and drives:
UgKwNa4.gif


The larger one is power, directly off the PSU. Your PSU has plenty.
The smaller one is data. It may or may not be L shaped.

Since you have 2 that came with the motherboard, and 2 from previous...you have enough.
 
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