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This might be a stupid question, but does it make any difference at
all which power cable I use for a SATA drive? The drive came with a
SATA power cable, but the drive also has a conventional four pin
socket for a regular power cable. I've plugged it into the four pin
and it works fine. Is it just an extra option or is there a benefit to
using the SATA power cable? Thanks.

Okay, I just noticed I mispelled SATA in the subject line of my
original post.

>This might be a stupid question, but does it make any difference at
>all which power cable I use for a SATA drive? The drive came with a
>SATA power cable, but the drive also has a conventional four pin
>socket for a regular power cable. I've plugged it into the four pin
>and it works fine. Is it just an extra option or is there a benefit to
>using the SATA power cable? Thanks.

On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 20:52:08 -0400, wrote:

>This might be a stupid question, but does it make any difference at

Not.

>all which power cable I use for a SATA drive? The drive came with a

Of course, it's a different connector with more pins.

>SATA power cable, but the drive also has a conventional four pin
>socket for a regular power cable. I've plugged it into the four pin
>and it works fine. Is it just an extra option or is there a benefit to
>using the SATA power cable? Thanks.

Hot swap power disconnect/reconnect.
http://www.asrock.com/news/SATA_HotPlug.pdf
http://www.serialata.org/collateral/...t_1_1_Gold.pdf

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