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New Build: need to buy sata cables?

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  • Hard Drives
  • Cable
  • New Build
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February 17, 2008 7:13:15 PM

My new build will have 3 SATA hard drives. All of the HDs are OEMs. Do I need to buy separate SATA cables for the build?

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February 17, 2008 8:04:32 PM

It depends on what you get with the motherboard. For example GA-P35-DS3L comes with two SATA cables and GA-P35-DS3R with 4.
February 17, 2008 8:15:31 PM

I am planning on an ASUS P5K. I just checked the specs on the ASUS web site and it shows 2 sata cables included. Looks like I will need another one.

Any suggests or will any basisc sata cable be okay?
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April 22, 2008 10:37:09 PM

Be careful with those SATA cables:
Sometimes the latches interfere and don't mate well.
Also, there are two different pin-outs: 1-1 and 1-7.

This site has good pictures of SATA cables so you can see the latching device:

http://www.techcable.com/HTML/SATA.htm
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