spec me a new h/d show me a sata pwr connector

233 · 6 Aug 2006 at 09:42

right guys due to my poorly spin point ide dieing last night i now need a new drive

i've now moved over to an asrock dual sata board (sata 1 &2 ???) having never used sata before i want something pretty easy to chuck in and go and possibly under 60 quid as i've already got my main maxtor drive (paltry 160gig ide)

also can anyone show me a piccy of a sata power connecter think i have one funny little blocky rectangular thing yeah

Poolybit · 6 Aug 2006 at 09:45

233 · 6 Aug 2006 at 09:50

hmm not whats on my psu anyway

its a little rectangular one with 6 wires going into it and 6 little conectors top and bottom

Poolybit · 6 Aug 2006 at 09:52

233 · 6 Aug 2006 at 09:53

no digi cam

i thought it were a sata connector

Poolybit · 6 Aug 2006 at 09:56

You can easily get standard molex to sata power connector convertors, thats if the SATA drive you get doesn't have SATA and Legacy power on it, some do.

What size drive are you looking for?

233 · 6 Aug 2006 at 09:57

that plug

dunno just want something a bt quick to install my o/s and main games on not silly money

Poolybit · 6 Aug 2006 at 10:02

That isn't used really anymore, but it isn't sata power.

Give me a little bit, I'll have a look whats around drive wise.

Poolybit · 6 Aug 2006 at 10:04

How old is your board?

Just wanna know if you have SATA I or II.

Or just give me a model number for your board

233 · 6 Aug 2006 at 10:05

asrock dual sata 2

KizZ · 6 Aug 2006 at 10:08

Can't SATA hard drives be powered with a molex connector as well?

Poolybit · 6 Aug 2006 at 10:08

Is that the ASRock PCIe and AGP board? 939 one?

233 · 6 Aug 2006 at 10:09

yup pooley

Poolybit · 6 Aug 2006 at 10:09

KizZ said:
Can't SATA hard drives be powered with a molex connector as well?

Not all, but I mentioned that up a bit >

Poolybit said:
...., thats if the SATA drive you get doesn't have SATA and Legacy power on it, some do.

Some can, some can't.

Poolybit · 6 Aug 2006 at 10:14

If I was you, I'd probably get a Maxtor drive, good reliabilty, not too loud, general good performance.

200gb DiamondMax 6V200E0.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Maxtor_SATA.html

Its on there.

About £50 pre delivery.

smids · 6 Aug 2006 at 11:30

Poolybit said:
If I was you, I'd probably get a Maxtor drive, good reliabilty, not too loud, general good performance.

200gb DiamondMax 6V200E0.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Maxtor_SATA.html

Its on there.

About £50 pre delivery.

And I would steer well clear of Maxtor Diamondmax drives or any of their consumer range until Seagate sort them out.

Western Digital and Hitachi drives all have both SATA and molex connectors. All other companies only use SATA power. I'd go for Hitachi personally as they are great drives but the new Seagate 7200.10's are THE best 7200rpm drives at the moment. I'd just pickup a SATA > molex power converter which is REALLY cheap (£1-2).

dalex · 6 Aug 2006 at 11:37

got the same board here with a samsung spin point 250gb sata 2 and had no issues,its also very quiet,you need to put the sata drivers on a floppy and press F6 to instal them at the start of the windows install
dave