Sata power Cable Skykick

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The SATA 15-pin power supply connector is one of the standard peripheral power connectors in computers. It’s the standard connector for all SATA-based harddrives and optical drives

SATA power cables protrude from the power supply unit and are meant to reside only inside the computer case. This is unlike SATA data cables, which are also usually kept behind the case but can also connect to external SATA  devices such as external hard drives via a SATA TO eSATA bracket.

SATA power cables are required for powering internal SATA hardware such as hard drives; they don’t work with older parallel sata devices. Since older devices that require a PATA connection still exist, some power supplies may only have 4-pin molex power supply connector.

If your power supply doesn’t provide a SATA power cable, you can buy a Molex-to-SATA adapter to power your SATA device over a Molex power connection.

One difference between PATA and SATA data cables is that two PATA devices can connect to the same data cable, whereas only one SATA device can attach to a single SATA data cable. However, SATA cables are much thinner and easier to manage inside a computer, which is important for cable management and proper airflow.

While a SATA power cable has 15 pins, SATA data cables have just seven.