 MaxoYour tax dollars at work.
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Maxo
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2013-Sep-19 9:13 am
What is this 8-pin connector?
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I'm building a new PC for my daughter. Everything has been going well. I picked up this WD VelociRaptor 500GB 10000 RPM drive and it has this 8-pin connector on the back. The power supply I purchased does not have any plug that looks like this and I have not run across it before. The last time I built a computer from the ground-up SATA did not exist, so I am assuming this is something newish that I have just not run in to yet. |
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HarryH3
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HarryH3
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2013-Sep-19 9:37 am
Those are jumpers, not power pins. SATA drives take a different power connection than IDE drives did. The edge connector on the far right in your picture is where the power cable connects. |
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Here's a picture of a power adapter, in case your power supply doesn't already have SATA power connectors. » www.newegg.com/Product/P ··· 12104652 |
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MaxoYour tax dollars at work.
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Maxo
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2013-Sep-19 9:59 am
I have all the SATA hooked up. Given that this drive didn't come with jumpers should it be safe to assume it should just work that way? I didn't think SATA required jumpers since the the old IDE concept of slave and master, primary and secondary isn't really relevant. I have another SATA SSD HD with no jumpers on the back and same for my optical and SSD drive. |
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HarryH3
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HarryH3
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2013-Sep-19 10:02 am
You usually don't need to use any jumpers. Sometimes you have to install a single jumper to force the drive to use only SATA I mode, but this is only needed with really old controllers that don't understand SATA II or SATA III protocols. |
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MaxoYour tax dollars at work.
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Maxo
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2013-Sep-19 11:21 am
Thanks for the clarification. |
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JoelC707
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JoelC707
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2013-Sep-19 12:19 pm
Here's what WD says those jumpers do on their drives: » wdc.custhelp.com/app/ans ··· ktopjump |
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 Raible
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I've lost track of how many computers I've built now and I have never once jumpered a hard drive. |
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HarryH3
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HarryH3
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2013-Sep-19 3:53 pm
said by Raible:I've lost track of how many computers I've built now and I have never once jumpered a hard drive. You must be a young whipper-snapper!  Back in the day jumpers were a necessity. I kept a pack of spares in my field service kit. Needed them if you wanted to install more than one IDE hard drive, optical drive or even floppy drive.  Most things today are just plug and play. |
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said by HarryH3:said by Raible:I've lost track of how many computers I've built now and I have never once jumpered a hard drive. You must be a young whipper-snapper! Back in the day jumpers were a necessity. I kept a pack of spares in my field service kit. Needed them if you wanted to install more than one IDE hard drive, optical drive or even floppy drive. Most things today are just plug and play. I still have a few jumpers around, just in case. |
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moes
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I've got a system that refuses to use cable select, even after a bios update to correct it. so, yeah it's always fun especially with drives that are not marked. |
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bbear2
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Did you notice on those WD images, that the title says SATA, but yet the images show the IDE power supply connector.  I guess it's part of that "just good enough" mentality. |
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JoelC707
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JoelC707
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2013-Sep-28 11:20 pm
Actually a lot of the early SATA drives had both power connectors on them for backwards compatibility. That said, the actual KB article is fairly universal, covering 2.5"/3.5", IDE/SATA/SSD, etc. |
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Back in the day jumpers were a necessity. I kept a pack of spares in my field service kit. Needed them if you wanted to install more than one IDE hard drive, optical drive or even floppy drive. 
