On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:29:20 +1300, "~misfit~" <> wrote:
>Somewhere on the interweb "Nicolaas Hawkins" typed:
>> On 22 Oct 2007 07:04:28 GMT, Gordon <>
>> wrote in <news:>:
>>
>> > On 2007-10-22, Nicolaas Hawkins <> wrote:
>> > > On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:18:28 +1300, Roger Sheppard (posting as
>> > > Greg House <ghouse@yabadabado.>, one of his 150+ pseudonyms)
>> > > wrote in <news: >:
>> > >
>> > > > Can you get Sata to Molex power adapters.
>> > > >
>> > > > My PSU runs short on Modex connector and I do not like using Y
>> > > > cable splitters, but I do have 4 SATA power connector, can you
>> > > > get adapters to convert them to Molex..?
>> > >
>> > > You would be better advised to go with the Molex splitter option
>> > > for reasons of current handling without distress. The SATA
>> > > connectors have considerbly less contact area and are unlikely to
>> > > be able to handle more than a couple of amps without getting hot.
>> > >
>> > So just how much power does a modern HD consume?
>>
>> It depends.
>> Please quote where the OP mentions what he will be running from it.
>> Clue: He didn't.
>>
>> > A not so new 80GB Seagate tells me 5v @ 0.85A and 12V @ 0.75A. Now
>> > since the power supply is both 5V and 12V, two HD running off one
>> > connection will not place more than 2A on either connection.
>>
>> Quite correct.
>>
>> >
>> > A later 120GB has 5V@0.65A and 12V@ 0.37A.
>> >
>> > Still a modex connector probably is able to carry more current.
>>
>> Thank you for that very small concession.
>> It's Molex, by the way, not modex.
>
>But...... It *must* be "Modex", Roger Shepard said so!
>
>FWIW I totally agree with you. Firstly, Rog didn't state what he wanted to
>run off it, secondly, the contacts on a SATA connector are multiple per
>rail, not a single connector each as in a molex connector. To go from SATA
>to molex would require combining several conductors back into one, a
>pointless (and potentially complicated) excercise when you can just use a
>molex splitter cable.
>
>As much as I dislike molex connectors, as long as the devices that need
>powering have molex' then the best choice would be a splitter (or two, if
>two preferably on different "lines" from the PSU).
Being that I am a fully Trained Main Frame Computer Eng, I thought that is would be obvious that I
do know what I am doing, plus passing the electrical certificate here.
The PSU that I had in the case had 8 Molex connector my current PSU only has 6, I have a total of 7
IDE devices and a Video card, and I do not like using Y cables that use the Cheap Molex connectors
with hard brass connectors, not the better quality bronze/copper ones that have a much higher
current rating.
It would only be used to power the DVD ROM and the DVD Burner or the hard drives.
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