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Anyone have any idea where I'd be able to get a hard drive power cable
like the one in this pic:
http://www.electrictoolbox.com/images/img_1534w.jpg

It's from a Dell PowerEdge 650 and the funny connector at the other end
is to plug into the motherboard. I emailed them to ask about them but
they're pretty slow in responding after replying to my intial query
quite quickly.

I should have enough time to be able to give them a call later on this
afternoon but in the meantime I was wondering if they're resonably
standard and if I can get hold of one more quickly than Dell sending me
one.

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Chris Hope | www.electrictoolbox.com | www.linuxcdmall.co.nz

On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 13:21:29 +1200, Chris Hope <>
wrote:

>Anyone have any idea where I'd be able to get a hard drive power cable
>like the one in this pic:
> http://www.electrictoolbox.com/images/img_1534w.jpg
>
>It's from a Dell PowerEdge 650 and the funny connector at the other end
>is to plug into the motherboard. I emailed them to ask about them but
>they're pretty slow in responding after replying to my intial query
>quite quickly.
>
>I should have enough time to be able to give them a call later on this
>afternoon but in the meantime I was wondering if they're resonably
>standard and if I can get hold of one more quickly than Dell sending me
>one.



This will teach you or some one never to buy DELL.

All custom bits used, so you can't upgrade..

CSE wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 13:21:29 +1200, Chris Hope
> <> wrote:
>
>>Anyone have any idea where I'd be able to get a hard drive power cable
>>like the one in this pic:
>> http://www.electrictoolbox.com/images/img_1534w.jpg
>>
>>It's from a Dell PowerEdge 650 and the funny connector at the other
>>end is to plug into the motherboard. I emailed them to ask about them
>>but they're pretty slow in responding after replying to my intial
>>query quite quickly.
>>
>>I should have enough time to be able to give them a call later on this
>>afternoon but in the meantime I was wondering if they're resonably
>>standard and if I can get hold of one more quickly than Dell sending
>>me one.
>
> This will teach you or some one never to buy DELL.
>
> All custom bits used, so you can't upgrade..

Did you actually look at the pic woger? I know you do actually know
quite a lot about hardware, so perhaps it's a type of connector you've
seen before.

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Chris Hope | www.electrictoolbox.com | www.linuxcdmall.co.nz

On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 14:03:16 +1200, Chris Hope wrote:

> Did you actually look at the pic woger? I know you do actually know
> quite a lot about hardware, so perhaps it's a type of connector you've
> seen before.

Calling him Roger might encourage him to give forth some of the useful
information he knows.

Gordon wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 14:03:16 +1200, Chris Hope wrote:
>
>> Did you actually look at the pic woger? I know you do actually know
>> quite a lot about hardware, so perhaps it's a type of connector
>> you've seen before.
>
> Calling him Roger might encourage him to give forth some of the useful
> information he knows.

Hmm true. Pretty please Roger

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Chris Hope | www.electrictoolbox.com | www.linuxcdmall.co.nz

On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 18:06:10 +1200, Chris Hope
<> wrote in
<news:d4pugh$1bf$>:

> Gordon wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 14:03:16 +1200, Chris Hope wrote:
>>
>>> Did you actually look at the pic woger? I know you do actually know
>>> quite a lot about hardware, so perhaps it's a type of connector
>>> you've seen before.
>>
>> Calling him Roger might encourage him to give forth some of the useful
>> information he knows.
>
> Hmm true. Pretty please Roger
Hang on a shake, I'll fetch the vaseline for you.


--
Nicolaas

Chris Hope <> wrote in news:d4pdqo$vbf$1
@lust.ihug.co.nz:

> Anyone have any idea where I'd be able to get a hard drive power cable
> like the one in this pic:
> http://www.electrictoolbox.com/images/img_1534w.jpg
>
> It's from a Dell PowerEdge 650 and the funny connector at the other end
> is to plug into the motherboard. I emailed them to ask about them but
> they're pretty slow in responding after replying to my intial query
> quite quickly.
>
> I should have enough time to be able to give them a call later on this
> afternoon but in the meantime I was wondering if they're resonably
> standard and if I can get hold of one more quickly than Dell sending me
> one.
>

The small end looks like the connector used on some variety of CD rom
audio cables. You might be able to bodge one togeather?

SteveM

On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 11:42:37 +0000 (UTC), SteveM <> wrote:

>Chris Hope <> wrote in news:d4pdqo$vbf$1
>@lust.ihug.co.nz:
>
>> Anyone have any idea where I'd be able to get a hard drive power cable
>> like the one in this pic:
>> http://www.electrictoolbox.com/images/img_1534w.jpg
>>
>> It's from a Dell PowerEdge 650 and the funny connector at the other end
>> is to plug into the motherboard. I emailed them to ask about them but
>> they're pretty slow in responding after replying to my intial query
>> quite quickly.
>>
>> I should have enough time to be able to give them a call later on this
>> afternoon but in the meantime I was wondering if they're resonably
>> standard and if I can get hold of one more quickly than Dell sending me
>> one.
>>
>
>The small end looks like the connector used on some variety of CD rom
>audio cables. You might be able to bodge one togeather?
>
>SteveM


No as it has to take the Start up current of the HD, its much larger.

So I call them and they tell me I can't just get the cable and tell me I
can only get the cable if I buy the hard drive from them. And get this,
they say that their hard drives are special Dell ones and others won't
work in their machines (sounds like a load of crap to me), yet the
spare one I have (from an HP system) is identical to the one that was
already installed in it.

So Roger's right... stupid vendor lock-in.

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Chris Hope | www.electrictoolbox.com | www.linuxcdmall.com

So out of interest I did a grep on the log files for requests for that
power cable image and get the following:

70 requests in total
41 requests by Gecko based browsers (eg firefox, mozilla etc)
23 requests by MSIE
3 requests by Konqueror
2 requests by Opera
1 request by Safari

Translated to percentages:
59% Gecko
33% MSIE
4% Konq
3% Opera
1% Safari

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Chris Hope | www.electrictoolbox.com | www.linuxcdmall.co.nz