Western Digital Secure Connect Serial ATA Cable?

Deluxe1 · 25 Jul 2007 at 16:18

Hi,

do these cables supply the power to the drive also?

waso_dude · 25 Jul 2007 at 16:22

Nope.

They give a more secure fit to stop you from snapping the weedy sata connectors.

Ak!ta · 25 Jul 2007 at 16:23

No. I had to use a power cable aswell...

thefishdude · 25 Jul 2007 at 20:50

nope, when using these you then have to use a 4pin molex connetor to power the hdd

Deluxe1 · 25 Jul 2007 at 21:25

Are there only certain wd drives that take this cable as im sure the wd drive i just bought doesnt have a molex connector on the back.

Ak!ta · 25 Jul 2007 at 21:35

Should have?
Which drive do you have ?

Deluxe1 · 26 Jul 2007 at 13:33

ive got two WD 500GB 5000AAKS,heres a pic of the back of the drive just a empty space where the molex power connector should be?

misterPK · 26 Jul 2007 at 14:18

SATA drives can have specific power supply leads different from your average molex connectors used on IDE drives and optical drives. Whilst most modern power supplies come with these, you can get molex adapters such as this one.

PK!

jhmaeng · 26 Jul 2007 at 14:27

Deluxe1 said:
ive got two WD 500GB 5000AAKS,heres a pic of the back of the drive just a empty space where the molex power connector should be?

In your case, you can't use the Secure Connect cable. The hard drive needs a molex plug to supply the power, because the Secure Connect only supplies data but still takes up both the data and power plugs.

misterPK · 26 Jul 2007 at 14:37

ok, ignore my posts, i thought you would be able to plug a sata power lead into the secure jobby. Seems a bit stupid to me that you can't.

PK!