Quick question on SATA installation.

[karma4jake]

I'm building my new rig with a barracuda 160gb and an asus a8v board. There appear to be two data connections on the HD a skinny one and a wider one. All I got was cables for the skinny one, is this all I need?

 

[karma4jake]

Ok so the wide one is the power, the skinny one is the data, but what is the 4 pinned one, the one with male pins.

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: karma4jake
Ok so the wide one is the power, the skinny one is the data, but what is the 4 pinned one, the one with male pins.

That's a 4-pin "molex" power connector, in case you don't have the SATA power adapters and you have an older PSU that doesn't have the SATA power plugs. RTFM?