I already have the serial ATA (data) cable. What other cables would I need? Please help.
A SATA HDD needs a SATA connection from the power supply to the drive in addition to a SATA cord from motherboard to the HDD (this cord has a smaller connector piece than the one leading from the power supply to the HDD) to function properly. The cord that leads from the HDD to the motherboard should have come with the motherboard and usually has a red connector piece.
1. Make sure your mother board can take SATA disk,it has a special socket in the mother board,not the IDE socket. Old computer mother board before 2004 without this device. Some mother board can support two to four SATA disks. 2.SATA disk needs a thin narrow red cable for data transfer between mother board. 3.SATA disk needs a special power plug. Infacts it uses the same type 5 volts and 11 volts but convert them into more contacts to feed the SATA disk. Some new type power supply has this plug for SATA. Other older type power supply requires an adaptor cable converting the 4 pins plug into SATA plug.
