SATA Power Converter. I am working on replacing the motherboard and harddrive in a computer and I'd like to go with SATA but the power supply does not have SATA power connectors. I know that you can get SATA power converter cables for cheap but then I read...

Drive Power Connectors 1X 4-pin ATX12V Power Connector 2X SATA Power Connector 1X 20pin/24pin dual-use Main connector If I'm not mistaken you will need a 4 pin to 6 pin (PCI-e) power converter. Not...

the modular OCZ Modxsteam Pro 700 that I bought) only supply the newer SATA power connectors. So in essence I would need a SATA to Molex power converter. My questions are: - Do these converters exist and are they reliable? - Does anyone have any recommendation...

ones do not - if the drive you buy doesn't have that, and the power supply doesn't have a SATA connector, you can order a power converter for about $2 with a drive (or get a retail kit which should come with one). "JE" wrote in message news:I0Htd.30354...

any power supply, but there are older ("Molex") power cables and newer ("SATA") power cables. Only modern power supplies natively have these newer SATA power cables, and often they only have a few. Cheap Molex-to-SATA-power-converter-cables are common though....

one PSU. Thanks much! DuckTape In my opinion, the best PSU's on the market are from (in order) PC &Power& Cooling, Enermax, and Antec. I wouldn't have said that about Antec in the past, not until the True Power Series was released, because of inconsistent...

the floppy drive. There are only two SATA power connectors, so if you add more SATA drives that come without MOLEX connectors, you'll need power converters in addition to the drives and data cables. William P. N. Smith wrote: > Does the Dimension...

Thanks. 1.) Some power supplies have SATA power headers, which have a 3.3v line. Others don't. Most SATA drives accept either type of header (old style or SATA power). And most boards come with SATA power to 4-pin adapters. So any way you look at it, there's...

IDE to SATA converter did not work. I installed the IDE to SATA converter power on the satat drive and also power on the converter but it did not detected the SATA drive. I installed the IDE to SATA converter power on the satat drive and also power on the converter...

I haven't seen available that I am going ahead with is wiring everything correctly such that the adapter can be used with a SATA power supply. These are very common now. SATA power supplies provide the 3.3v and 5.5v so all we needed to do was wire the adapter...