Serial ATA Power woes

[Arcite]

So I went and bought a Seagate 120 GB Barracuda Serial ATA hard drive and now I can't seem to figure out how to hook the silly thing up to the power supply. I saw that Harddrive.com has a 15 pin (male) to 4 pin (male) converter but then how am I supposed to hook up the 4 pin male to the power supply? Do double female 4 pin converters exist and am I just blind? Am I being really stupid here (aside from buying something I didn't make sure I had all the parts for)?

- perpetually confused, Arcite

 

[Twitch]

You need a Serial ATA power adaptor cable. There's a picture of one here: <A HREF="http://www.qvs.com/" target="_new">http://www.qvs.com/</A>

It's a 15pin male to 4-pin male, like you said. It should plug into your power supply.




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<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Twitch on 03/05/03 08:32 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[Cuda]

So the drive didn't come with a pigtail to do the conversion. That is just wrong.

 

[Twitch]

Yup. Wrong and stupid. There's not a power supply made that comes with that connector.

Someone sure showed some foresight there!

Actually, I do know of ONE power suppy made that somes with a SATA power connector--the prototype Intel used at IDF! I'm sure it'll be a piece of cake getting one of those.


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<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Twitch on 03/05/03 08:54 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[Arcite]

Ooooooooooh ok, see I saw those connectors on other sites and I was getting confused because due to the angle I thought they were the same as the ones coming from the power supply, which I thought were male since they "went into" other things, but the male end is the one with the prongs then, despite the whole plugging in feature.. Ok, I feel stupid now. I thought it was astronimically stupid that they'd be offering something with two male ends without female ends to match from the power supply. But, well, they are. Anyway, thanks for that site and pointing out my idiocy

 

[Crashman]

Yes, male has pins, regardless of the outside sleave of the connector. Strange but true.

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[LumberJack]

I just got a gigabyte board and it came with a sata power connector but only one for two drives? I suppose no one actually expects people to use this stuff.

To err is human... to really screw things up you need a computer!

 

[Crashman]

LOL, no, in fact they don't. They put that feature on because they know people want it, not to use it, but just to know that they <i>could use it</i> if they <i>really wanted to</i>.

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