Install 3 drives in Dell Studio xps 9000

[lesdubb]

i have just installed 1T Seagate SATA drive (2nd bay)... have another of equal 1T Seagate SATA drive... the 1st 2 power cables are stacked... does the 3rd go beside the 2 stack?

 

[foscooter]

Define "Stacked"

SATA drives need 2 cables: 1 from power supply to drive (15-pin), 1 from drive to motherboard (7-pin).

Does this help?

 

[lesdubb]

the power supply is linked or "piggybacked"... the 7 pin that goes to the motherboard... there are 2 (one above the other) and and additional 7 pin slot beside that... will the 3rd cable go there?

 

[lesdubb]

Define "Stacked"

SATA drives need 2 cables: 1 from power supply to drive (15-pin), 1 from drive to motherboard (7-pin).

Does this help?

the power supply is linked or "piggybacked"... the 7 pin that goes to the motherboard... there are 2 (one above the other) and and additional 7 pin slot beside that... will the 3rd cable go there?

 

[foscooter]

There are 2 plugs/ports on the SATA drive:

One for power, 15-pin (flat/black) from the power supply, plugging into the drive.
One for data, 7-pin (flat/red or ??) from the drive to the motherboard SATA port.

That is it!

Now these plugs from the PSU maybe on the same "cord" from the PSU, mine have 4 SATA plugs on one cord. Is this what you mean?

I'm confused about your "3rd cable" reference.

 

[lesdubb]

thanks for your interest... reopenned cpu and realized that there are 5 SATA ports on the motherboard (clearly labeled)... and yes there is a shared cord with 3 SATA plugs...

installed the 3rd hard drive and all is working well... thanks again for your interest

 

[foscooter]

Ok, glad we got that figured out. Just different terms, same goal.