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Bruce Phung · December 3rd, 2010, 10:40 AM

I am adding a couple of new hard drives. There are 2 cables connect to the HD, 1 is for power and the other RED cable (Sata cable) I want to buy the RED Sata cable with Y to it so that I can connect all the additional hd. I went on to Amazon and search, am not able to find anything like that. Can you point me to the right place to buy this Sata Y cable. Thank you.

Giroud Francois · December 3rd, 2010, 11:46 AM

that does not exist. you need a sata port per disk.
usually cheap card come with at least 4 sata connectors, high end cards have 2 controllers with 6 or 8 sata connectors.

Mike McCarthy · December 3rd, 2010, 11:52 AM

You can't buy Y SATA cables. Each port only supports one drive. (Where as each older IDE port used to support two drives) The exception would be SATA port multipliers, if you existing SATA ports supported that feature. In your case just adding more SATA ports via an new SATA controller card is probably the simpler and cheaper solution.

Bruce Phung · December 3rd, 2010, 11:12 PM

That is, Sata controller. Thanks a lot guys. My PC only got 3 sata port, my pc case has 6 slots total for HD. I want to fill them all with new hd.

Bruce Phung · December 4th, 2010, 07:32 PM

One more question..

My dell PC power supply has 3 piggy back to power 3 hard drive. Right now it is all being used up. 1 is being used for C:/ drive and the other 2 piggy back used for 2 additional hard drive. I have bought Serial ATA dual power adapter cable. But the mobo don't have any slot to plug this cable into. How are you guys able to installed 4-6 hard drive? How did you power up your hard drive?

PS. Never mind. I am not going to upgrade the Dell power supply, just the purpose of adding more hard drive. I have plan to build my first PC some time with all the goodies.

December 3rd, 2010, 10:40 AM	#1
Bruce Phung Major Player Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Rochester,NY USA Posts: 285	Question about Sata cable I am adding a couple of new hard drives. There are 2 cables connect to the HD, 1 is for power and the other RED cable (Sata cable) I want to buy the RED Sata cable with Y to it so that I can connect all the additional hd. I went on to Amazon and search, am not able to find anything like that. Can you point me to the right place to buy this Sata Y cable. Thank you.

December 3rd, 2010, 11:52 AM	#3
Mike McCarthy Major Player Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Northern California Posts: 517	You can't buy Y SATA cables. Each port only supports one drive. (Where as each older IDE port used to support two drives) The exception would be SATA port multipliers, if you existing SATA ports supported that feature. In your case just adding more SATA ports via an new SATA controller card is probably the simpler and cheaper solution. __________________ For more information on these topics, check out my tech website at www.hd4pc.com

December 4th, 2010, 07:32 PM	#5
Bruce Phung Major Player Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Rochester,NY USA Posts: 285	One more question.. My dell PC power supply has 3 piggy back to power 3 hard drive. Right now it is all being used up. 1 is being used for C:/ drive and the other 2 piggy back used for 2 additional hard drive. I have bought Serial ATA dual power adapter cable. But the mobo don't have any slot to plug this cable into. How are you guys able to installed 4-6 hard drive? How did you power up your hard drive? PS. Never mind. I am not going to upgrade the Dell power supply, just the purpose of adding more hard drive. I have plan to build my first PC some time with all the goodies. Last edited by Bruce Phung; December 5th, 2010 at 02:06 PM.

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December 3rd, 2010, 11:46 AM	#2
Giroud Francois Inner Circle Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: switzerland Posts: 2,133	that does not exist. you need a sata port per disk. usually cheap card come with at least 4 sata connectors, high end cards have 2 controllers with 6 or 8 sata connectors.

December 3rd, 2010, 11:12 PM	#4
Bruce Phung Major Player Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Rochester,NY USA Posts: 285	That is, Sata controller. Thanks a lot guys. My PC only got 3 sata port, my pc case has 6 slots total for HD. I want to fill them all with new hd.