SATA to Power adapter?

[silencer534]

Is there an adapter that I could find that could convert a SATA power adapter, to a 4 pin male molex? Reason is because my shuttle system has a PSU that has 2 dedicated SATA power connectors...

 

[Continuity28]

Originally posted by: silencer534
Is there an adapter that I could find that could convert a SATA power adapter, to a 4 pin male molex? Reason is because my shuttle system has a PSU that has 2 dedicated SATA power connectors...

To clarify, you have a hard drive that takes 4 pin molex, and you want to use your serial ata power connectors from the PSU for it?

My question is why? It won't be any better than using molex -> molex. The reason Serial ATA power connectors are different are for hot swap, which your hard drive doesn't have if it only has molex.

I don't see any of that type of converter anywhere though.

Or did you mean molex -> Serial ATA?

 

[silencer534]

No, since my Shuttle PSU has limited amount of molex connectors and there is a free SATA power connector I dont use I was wondering if there was a cable to convert the SATA power cable to a regular 4 pin molex connector.

 

[Continuity28]

Originally posted by: silencer534
No, since my Shuttle PSU has limited amount of molex connectors and there is a free SATA power connector I dont use I was wondering if there was a cable to convert the SATA power cable to a regular 4 pin molex connector.

Molex connectors are nice in that you can continue to split them until your PSU can't put out any more power. Why not just use a Molex Y splitter cable?

I don't think you'll find a SATA -> Molex converter though, so your best bet is the splitter.

 

[silencer534]

Oh, I always thought splitting them would reduce their proficiency and stability...nm then, thanks 🙂