Bought a Bare HDD and an Asus Optical Drive that came with no SATA power cable (obviously the bare drive didn't come with one), would this power both?
1021932
Many systems come with an extra power cable; yes a splitter will enable you to connect 2 devices, but a data cable for each is needed, plugging into the sata connections on your board & each board is different as to how many data ports are on your board. Look at the tom's hardware site, as they give good info... Hope this helps...
672883
You need the 2 ports to power the HDD. Depends on your hard drive model only one port may not be enough.
2017074
Sata Cable No, mounting bracket yes, I would buy Intel or Samsung tho, this drive failed on me
276588
The one I bought came with a Sata Cable and software/instructions but I have only installed t and not put the drivers in yet!
221647
mine has a power supply which i leave hooked up. are you talking about a different drive maybe?
60757
Everything you need is included with regards to power. They won't leave you out in the cold. As for the SATA cable - none needed. The hard disk (as with all of these) plugs directly into a small control board inside of the enclosure. So, if you have a hard disk, they'll provide all the rest for you to have a working external drive.
76921
It looks like it should. Your pc has SATA interface now for its optical drive, if I read the literature correctly. I think the issue would be the OS your are using and if you have the proper drivers for the interface between the OS and the drive.
2103210
"Drive Only" is a bare hard drive. A "resellers kit" contains the drive, SATA cable, etc.
28035
Yes, it comes with SATA cables. Don't pair this MB with a cheap power supply, get a good one, for plug-in/configurable SATA power feeds.
2123468
Hello, I bought it some months ago.Just use the SATA cable and the power cable connected to your mother board and that's it.
198835
hi, just to clarify, this board has 2 sata III connections which should work with any drive that is compatible with the sata standard. ssd or hdd even a bluray drive. make sure you have the black sata power connectors from power supply too.
862450
No, the cable will not be included, it will have to be purchased separately, unless you can find one that probably came with your motherboard. Nothing else except the hard drive is included in the box.
2268434
Karen; there are two SATA connectors on the board, one is for SATA to IDE drive, the other is for SATA drive to IDE, and yes there needs to be a power connection.
1717450
There are no SATA cables provided. If you're going to use two drives, you need two SATA cables. However, only one power cable is needed which is nice.
1148400
to power the hard drive you need a 4 pin molex connector from the power supply. to connect it to the motherboard you're gonna need some kind of IDE to SATA adapter cable since this particular hard drive uses an older IDE connection
2090202
No additional power to the card is needed as both esata and sata drives have separate power connectors. This is not a USB card.
1929384
I have not tried it, but it should be fine. It doesn't care what SATA drive you plug in really, it's up to the OS to figure that out anyway.