HDDs come with SATA cables?

MarcLister · 28 Sep 2008 at 19:30

If I buy the WD 640Gb and Samsung 1Tb drives do they come with the SATA cables or do I need to hope the mobo comes with enough? Looking at the Asus P5Q-E.

Guessing as both are OEM it is just the HDDs and no cables?

Pilky01 · 28 Sep 2008 at 19:32

The samsung doesnt, i wouldn't have thought the wd would either. From what i remember that mobo comes with 2 sata cables

MarcLister · 28 Sep 2008 at 19:34

Sweet mama holy jebus! :eek:

What a fast response.

Cheers. So HDDs don't come with cables but mobo does.

Craig321 · 28 Sep 2008 at 19:34

I've bought a few Samsung F1 drives, a few Western Digital AAKS and some Seagate drives, none of them come with SATA cables.

A motherboard will usually come with as many SATA cables as there are SATA connections.

MarcLister · 28 Sep 2008 at 19:37

Craig321 said:
I've bought a few Samsung F1 drives, a few Western Digital AAKS and some Seagate drives, none of them come with SATA cables.

A motherboard will usually come with as many SATA cables as there are SATA connections.

Looks like you could be right.

Asus UK said:
6 x Serial ATA cable
1 x 2-port Serial ATA power cable

Dumb question but what is a SATA power cable? :confused:

I thought the SATA data cable did everything?

Jokester · 28 Sep 2008 at 19:39

Nah, there's a separate power cable from your PSU, that's about twice the size of the data cable.

Thebug · 28 Sep 2008 at 19:39

MarcLister said:
Looks like you could be right.

Dumb question but what is a SATA power cable? I thought the SATA data cable did everything?

Its a molex to sata power adaptor

Indy500 · 28 Sep 2008 at 19:39

MarcLister said:
Looks like you could be right.

Dumb question but what is a SATA power cable? I thought the SATA data cable did everything?

For those using ATX1.3 PSUs, eg Antec Truecontrol 550W that are otherwise sufficient to power a new system but lack the right connectors. The SATA power cable converts molex connectors to SATA power connectors.

MarcLister · 28 Sep 2008 at 19:41

Jokester said:
Nah, there's a separate power cable from your PSU, that's about twice the size of the data cable.

Ah yes, of course. Like I said, dumb question.

Thebug said:
Its a molex to sata power adaptor

sr4470 said:
For those using ATX1.3 PSUs, eg Antec Truecontrol 550W that are otherwise sufficient to power a new system but lack the right connectors. The SATA power cable converts molex connectors to SATA power connectors.

SNAP!

helmutcheese · 28 Sep 2008 at 19:57

MarcLister said:
If I buy the WD 640Gb and Samsung 1Tb drives do they come with the SATA cables or do I need to hope the mobo comes with enough? Looking at the Asus P5Q-E.

Guessing as both are OEM it is just the HDDs and no cables?

No because even though you get a full Retail warranty with OCUK the HDD's are nearly all OEM.

You do not get a fancy box with cables and screws, you get a HDD in its Antistatic Silver bag with bubblewrap added by OCUK .

Indy500 · 28 Sep 2008 at 19:59

I did get a Samsung with the cables and screws included, but that was 3 years ago.

lopkinfop · 29 Sep 2008 at 14:48

the samsungs come with screws, well the last 3 i bought have anyway

jbloggs · 29 Sep 2008 at 15:29

I recently bought a 1TB Samsung F1 (OEM) and a WD 640GB AAKS (OEM), neither had SATA cables, but also bought a 750GB Seagate 7200.11 (Retail), and it came in a nice box with SATA cable, CD, plus fixing screws....

dipper17 · 30 Sep 2008 at 09:58

Most hard disk sold at OcUK are OEM so never come with cables, only retail one from the purple shirted crew as they wouldn't know and would have to ask their supervisor what a SATA cable was!!

Major_Disaster · 1 Oct 2008 at 19:08

Do OEM HDDs not come with SATA cables, but retail do? Or is it purely packaging?

Major_Disaster · 1 Oct 2008 at 19:09

Note to self: Read post above.

MarcLister · 1 Oct 2008 at 20:51

Major_Disaster said:
Note to self: Read post above.

Read most of the posts above tbh.