Do you need to buy any of the cables for the hard drives?
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If you plan on installing more than one hard drive, you will need power cables for any extra drives.
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For the first hard drive, you don't need to buy any cables. They are provided inside the case. From second one onwards you need to buy data cables.
106284
Not exactly sure about your question.EVERY drive will need both a power cable and a data cable.
510451
I got the cables for the cams. If they include the hard drive in the dvr you will have to pay more for the dvr.
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You will have to refer to the manual that came with it, a list of hard drives are listed. Steve
106285
Not exactly sure about your question. EVERY drive will need both a power cable and a data cable.
1025300
Only for the drive. The hard drive itself comes with a fabric pouch for the cable.
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Yes, just need power cable and SATA cable. I am running Win 7 pro and had no ploblems.
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.
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Eric, No, you don't need any cables or mounting hardware. Everything is in the Synology enclosure. Essentially, you just slide the drives in. BYW, the DS 213j is terrific. I upgraded from DS 212 and it is much faster. Good luck
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Yes, You many need a drive cable if it doesn't come with the second hard Drive. There will be a power connector already there.
518451
I do believe that you need both cables to get all 8 drives. I think it is 4 per but I have not tested as I only have 4 drives at this time.
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Yes, it does require cables for power and communication. Depending on the age of your computer, your disk controller or mother board may not support the cable design of the newer drives. If look at the end of both plugs on your system and the plugs have a flat slot with a tiny 'L' shape at the end of the slot you should be good to go. If you have the older pin type connectors you are not. For a 3.5 inch bay in most desktops, you will need a bay converter or caddy, which are very reasonable and usually a recommended item on the Amazon web site when viewing the drive.
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Yes. You may need to get an extra SATA cable but they only cost around $3 a pop
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Sorry for the late response. I bought the diskless enclosure so I am not sure which hard drives they come with.
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Unless your hard drive has some kind of USB 3.0 to the native connection interface this will cable not work. Most newer hard drives have a SATA interface or the case of an external drive, an eSATA interface. You would, at minimum, need an eSATA cable.
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Previous helpers don't understand the question, SATA 3 6GB/S is a data cable.... You don't need to buy any special power cable, recent power supply, come with these connectors. Wouldn't be healthy for your new HDD, if you are planning to use an old or low quality power supply
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Negative for data cables. It comes with two accessory connectors with 4 sata power cables each (totaling 8) Seemed like pretty high quality cables.