Looking at the WD 640Gb and the Samsung 1Tb drives. Can anyone tell me if they will come with cables or will I need to buy a mobo with SATA cables? Will the Asus P5Q-E come with enough SATA cables to run the two HDDS?
Ta.
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Looking at the WD 640Gb and the Samsung 1Tb drives. Can anyone tell me if they will come with cables or will I need to buy a mobo with SATA cables? Will the Asus P5Q-E come with enough SATA cables to run the two HDDS?
Ta.
You don't get cables with the Samsung one certainly, I doubt you will with the WD either tbh. :)
BTW if you do get the Samsung, select it from Scan's today only section, it's a bit cheaper there this weekend.
Ta. I'm hoping the mobo will come with enough. :)
No cables with the disks, sometimes they don't have mounting screws either.
Asus boards usually come with two SATA cables so you should be fine.
my asus MB came with 6 SATA cables, this might as well .. http://www.hardwarelogic.com/news/13...008-07-28.html
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Originally Posted by floppybootstomp
Thanks to you both. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by manwithnoname
Yeah... almost all new (retail boxed) motherboards come with a dearth of SATA cables :)
More than you're ever likely to use in a system actually... let alone use with the particular motherboard you got them with!
So if you... as many do, update to a new motherboard quite regularly... chances are you'll eventually have dozens of the damned things lying around, which you're never gonna need/use :mrgreen:
Hard Drive Cables can be found on the Cables section
Thank you sah! Confident mobo will have enough SATA cables. However ruddy thing won't come with an E-Sata cable for my external HDD so I'll have to get one from Scan. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by DavidM
I have had a problem with a sata cable cracking at the connector - giving unreliable performancce - and given that they are pretty cheap, it is probably worth buying at least one just in case the mobo isn't supplied with enough - my Asus board came with one!
Cheers peterb. I'll bear that in mind. :)