 MaxoYour tax dollars at work.Premium,VIP
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Tallahassee, FL | What is this 8-pin connector?
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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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| 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/Product.a···12104652 |
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MaxoYour tax dollars at work.Premium,VIP
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Tallahassee, FL
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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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1 recommendation | 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.Premium,VIP
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Tallahassee, FL | Thanks for the clarification. |
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JoelC707Premium
join:2002-07-09
West Point, GA
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1 recommendation | Here's what WD says those jumpers do on their drives: »wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/det···ktopjump |
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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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2 recommendations | said by Dissembled: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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 DKSDamn Kidney StonesPremium,ExMod 2002
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Owen Sound, ON
kudos:2 | said by HarryH3:said by Dissembled: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
join:2009-11-15
Cedar City, UT | reply to HarryH3
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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bbear2Premium
join:2003-10-06
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kudos:3 | reply to JoelC707
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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JoelC707Premium
join:2002-07-09
West Point, GA
kudos:5 | 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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