In message , Paul
writes:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message ,
Mark Twain writes:
Unfortunately the 780 doesn't have a
second SATA power cable(the smaller of

Does it have a spare Molex one? You can get adapters, I think.

the two) so I can only test one HD at a
time and then have to move to cable to
the other HD to test it.
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The SATA power cable is actually the _larger_ one; for whatever
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If the tower has an optical drive, you can "borrow"
the power and data cables and use them for a hard
drive. It all depends on the available cable length,
how they're dressed, as to whether they could be
re-purposed to allow testing two hard drives at once.

Paul

Even if they aren't long enough, unless they're _very_ short and also
awkwardly placed, you can use them, with the backup drive just hanging,
or supported by an elastic band, cable tie, or whatever - unless you're
backing up every day.

That's assuming the optical drive is SATA, though. An XP desktop might
well have an EIDE optical drive.
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