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Installing a second hard drive?
I want to install a second hard drive into my computer and I was wondering about the power supply. I have a Corsair 650w PSU and it has two cables with SATA plugs. Both cables have 3 or 4 SATA plugs and I'm wondering if it's alright to connect two or more devices to one cable. At the moment I have one cable plugged in to my CD drive and the second is plugged in to my hard drive.
I assume it's alright but I want to be sure. I plan to have my CD drive and new hard drive plugged in to the same cable.
3 Answers
- TJ GlawitschLv 48 years ago
1. Your computer itself draws "x" amount of electricity from different voltages the power supply provides. Without knowing what kind of CPU, Video card, etc. I couldn't guess as to what's already being spent, so I'm going to have to assume you're not running some kind of quad-core, multiple processor motherboard that's being overclocked and heavy usage for rendering or video games.
2. Your "cables" don't determine how many of what devices you can plug in. Even if you didn't have any spare SATA connectors on the PS, you can always buy adapters that plug into the "D" connector and convert it into SATA's shape and size.
3. The CD/DVD drive and hard drives can operate on the same cable (ie: "RAIL") of the power supply assuming there's enough power to spare and that the electricity is clean. If it's being over-used, you'll start noticing odd outages (like USB devices dropping connections and so on.)
Again, assuming you are not running a muscle-PC, you're probably doing fine with your intentions.
Good luck and take care!
