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Ninjahedge   08-06-2009 at 04:00:45 PM

OK, I asked this question on the tech support forum and nobody has told me jack, so here I go again:

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Hi guys.

Two quickies here.

I have looked online and I can't seem to find a Molex to Sata converter in Radio Shack or any other walk-in shop in the NYC area. Any clue?

Second, does anyone know if they sell external power supplies for hard drives and such that do not require a soft-switch coming through the motherboard? If not that, then does anyone know the contacts to short on a PS to make the box stay on?

I am just trying to get my RAID array updated, but I don't have enough for the 8 drives and system drive (plus, I ran out of adapters). If I can get one more adapter, I will try to just hook it up and see if the PS can handle it. If it can't, then I need MORE POWER, but I would like to just grab an old PS from another machine and hook that up w/o having to carry a full box around.

Any help/direction would be appreciated!



Full story is this:

I have 5x500G in a RAID5 now. I have 3 more slots. I just got 4 1.5TB drives the other day. Problem is two-fold. 1, I do not have enough Molex->SATA adapters, 2, I don't know that even if I did, that I would have enough power to run 8 drives and a system drive.

I want to add 3 drives (fill up the RAID) and start a second RAID5. Copy all the data from the 5 to the 3 (that is probably the most power hungry) and then disconnect the 5, add the 4th 1.5T to the array and reconstruct.

I am just looking for something I may be able to plug in externally that would have a few power outlets for the drives (or, possibly, a way to short out the Soft Switch to allow a regular PS to power these drives).

Any help would be appreciated.


/me bends over ashamedly.


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Newf   08-08-2009 at 09:58:47 PM
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Most all drives use <10watts each. Molex "Y" adapters are common, costing $2 or so. Molex ---> SATA adapters are even less.
Newegg: 12 123 137; 12 189 062.
These are hard to find in NYC but everywhere in Chicago???
Unlikely you don't have enough power if you planned your initial system well.
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exit2dos   08-08-2009 at 10:22:14 PM
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Microcenter has the adapters. Near you, they have a location on Long Island and in Paterson, NJ.
http://microcenter.com/search/sear [...] &category=

They also have external boxes for drives, but they tend to get pricey. If you use an additional PS, then just connect the green wire to any black wire. You can buy a premade cable (Microcenter doesn't carry them, but I make my own - just get a couple PSU extender cables.)

You can order one here (or see what it looks like to make your own):
http://www.performance-pcs.com/cat [...] s_id=21193

You definately want to go this route as you don't want to bypass the soft switch when powering hard drives. If you just have a cold on/off, the drives won't get the powerdown command and won't park the heads when you shutdown.

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Ninjahedge   08-10-2009 at 02:51:05 PM
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Ah.....

Good to know for future.

Well, what I ended up doing was taking my multimedia machin from the other room (shuttle) disconnecting the power from its drives and hooking them up to the 1.5T's.

I started them up, started up the main box with the 3ware controller, set up the new 3 disk RAID, transferred the files over (BTW, just so any other idjit knows, do NOT try to copy over that much stuff w/o either "fastcopy" or using something like Xcopy. I tried a simple copy/paste and it was taking forever (4Mb/s, yes b, not B). I guess that might have been from disabling the cache, but I was also told that Explorer copy is slow as sin....

Anyway, got the files copied and the old ones disconnected, now I am migrating. Over 24 hours for 50%! Hopefully I will be able to reassign drive letters and permissions soon (also, the array is on automatic 2TB partitioning/parsing).

Thanks Newf and E2D!

As an aside, I went to a place on 39th and 5th (or maybe 6th) to look for the cable. $7 plus tax. That's more than what you pay for it PLUS SHIPPING from Newegg! :P I basially told the disinterested schmuck behind the counter to F off. Stupid little $2 wire for $7? Feh!

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Vokofpolisiekar   08-11-2009 at 09:48:02 AM
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I'd say stop collecting such excessive amounts of movies, ponr, crap.

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Ninjahedge   08-11-2009 at 03:10:29 PM
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Yeah. I never know what to do with all that ponr.....

>wark<

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WingDing   08-11-2009 at 03:12:13 PM
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Your right hand sure seems to know what to do......

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Ninjahedge   08-11-2009 at 03:14:11 PM
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I guess that says you liked it?

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WingDing   08-11-2009 at 03:21:22 PM
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I always like it when people find my G-spot.

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Ninjahedge   08-11-2009 at 07:20:18 PM
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I thought that was your wallet....

/confused

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WingDing   08-11-2009 at 10:15:01 PM
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No, that's more like a raw nerve....

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Ninjahedge   08-12-2009 at 03:03:57 PM
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Overhandled?

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WingDing   08-12-2009 at 04:51:37 PM
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You could say that....

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Ninjahedge   08-12-2009 at 09:13:08 PM
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/me tries.

Nope. Can't do it.

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KingLoftusXII   08-14-2009 at 05:26:49 AM
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Porn. Stop with the pron, etc sh*t.

You pricks.

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zpyrd   08-25-2009 at 07:07:50 AM
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KingLoftusXII wrote :

Porn. Stop with the pron, etc sh*t.

You pricks.



Agreed...I think grandma has figured out what pron is.

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Ninjahedge   08-26-2009 at 03:02:35 PM
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But what about pr0n?

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WingDing   08-26-2009 at 03:30:34 PM
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That's something that you should ask me about. I would then be forced to give you a personal demonstration involving driving an articualted lorry up your backside.

Which I suspect is something that most people would pay to watch.

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Ninjahedge   08-26-2009 at 08:36:32 PM
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If that is your idea of what I should do, pray tell, what is what I shouldn't?

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WingDing   08-26-2009 at 11:10:59 PM
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You shouldn't drink and bake [/Arnie]

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zpyrd   08-27-2009 at 06:25:58 AM
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Sets up concession stand.

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mugz   10-02-2009 at 03:02:44 PM
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*goes screaming through thread in a clapped-out old Passat*

*breaks down halfway*

*sets car on fire and dances around the flames*

Yes, random, I know.

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zpyrd   10-04-2009 at 10:30:52 AM
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I took a picture anyway.

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mugz   10-05-2009 at 09:42:55 AM
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It had to happen somewhere. Why not here?

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