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Splicing molex PSU cable with SATA PSU cable?
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leif24
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_ 		9. March 2010 @ 19:17 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
If my PSU has molex power only, instead of buying a molex-sata adapter I'm wondering if I can instead splice an extra modular sata power cable I have to the molex cables. I've noticed the sata power cables have a fifth orange cable I presume I don't use. What's throwing me is the order of wires in molex is yellow, black, black, red. While the order of cables in a sata power cable is yellow, black, red, black.
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leif24
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_ 		9. March 2010 @ 19:58 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Will my 2 TB western green ead work with a molex/sata power adapter? My PSU has only molex and my understanding is Molex/sata adapter connector provide 12V and 5V power lines, but not 3.3V required by some SATA drives.
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ddp
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_ 		9. March 2010 @ 22:48 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
go matching colors as in yellow to yellow(12v), red to red(5v) & black to black(gnd). orange would be 3.3v. my 250gig sata3 drive has no problem with adapter.
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