PSU with a lot of sata power leads <£100

platypus · 26 Nov 2015 at 15:45

I realised earlier that I'd made a little faux pas. In that I ordered a new hdd for my server, and it's run out of SATA power leads

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I have 10 hard-drives in there, and no cd drives so I can't even get rid of that temporarily.

I can't seem to find a PSU in this price range, in the upto 800W sort of territory that has more than 10 sata leads. Is this something I might have to up my budget for? The EVGA Supernova was looking great, a 650W 80 Plus Platinum at under £100. But it's "only" got 9 sata leads!

skyripper · 26 Nov 2015 at 15:52

If it has spare molex's, get a extension lead with many SATA power on it.
Drives don't take a whole lot of amps.

platypus · 26 Nov 2015 at 15:58

It doesn't have spare molex's, but I could use sata splitters I guess. I was just reluctant to do so in case it wasn't good for the supply to the drives.

EVGAdominik · 26 Nov 2015 at 16:32

The 650 P2 do also have up to 6 Molex connectors you can run with it. The adapter for molex do mostly have 2 at each port and like already stated, no problem for the drives

platypus · 26 Nov 2015 at 16:49

Yes I should have had the wit to think of the molex>sata route myself. Certainly makes things easier!

EVGAdominik said:
The 650 P2 do also have up to 6 Molex connectors you can run with it. The adapter for molex do mostly have 2 at each port and like already stated, no problem for the drives

Send me an advance copy and I'll review it

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pastymuncher · 26 Nov 2015 at 17:02

Any of these should do the job nicely:-

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Silverstone SST-CP06-E4 Flexible SATA Power Cable 4x Connectors with Capacitors= £5.99
1 x Silverstone SST-CP06 SATA Power Cable 4x Connectors with Capacitors= £4.99
1 x BitFenix Alchemy Molex to 4 x SATA power extension - Black= £6.98
1 x BitFenix Molex to 4x SATA Adapter 20 cm - sleeved black/red/black= £5.99

Total: £29.97
(includes shipping: £6.02)