Since my internet is down (and thanks to Spectrum missing my appointment today - will be down until Thursday) I broke out the tools to finish my new computer upgrade. Yes…”new computer upgrade” is a funny sentence that my wife is confused about.
So I took the side of the case off and took the 2TB Seagate Barracuda out and put in two SanDisk Ultra 3D SSDs at 2TB each. Well, I put in one, but was surprised to see under the mounting pad for the second one I did not have a SATA power cable end. I have the larger connector but not the smaller one. So do I need to buy a power splitter for the one that is there?
I guess i misread that, yes as The_Nephilim says you can get a molex to SATA adapter or check if your motherboard came with a cable that has two SATA power plugs.
No, you read it right, my description was just wrong. For some reason I thought the smaller of the two connectors was the power, but as you all have said, it is the SATA cable that goes to the motherboard. I do have an extra power end, but I don’t have an extra SATA end to plug into the drive. Why would they put two bays there but only one SATA connection? I’ll have to poke around and see if there is another SATA connection on the motherboard and if so how to run that cable.
According to the motherboard specs, it should have 4xSATA ports. So you should only need to get another SATA cable and locate a free spot on the board. Getting to the ports will probably be the hard part…
SATA’s can only fit in one way with that ‘L’ shape in the central socket, plus usually have a metal press grip. I say that as if it’s a really tight fit you can sometimes use pliers or something to ‘guide’ it in till it clicks - might save having to take too much apart.
