Raptors on the loose

my054runner

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• Oct 20, 2005

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This may be a really dumb question to some but before I fried my new Raptors. I had them hooked up in a way I thought was kind of odd. When I ordered from Monarch, I also ordered these special cables, found here. Am I correct in assuming that I still need power plug into the Molex connector of those drives since this thing is blocking the sata power connector or does it get power through the cable?

 

{PMS}fishy

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• Oct 20, 2005

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Yes, you still need to hook up the 4 pin power connector.

 

Amoroso

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• Oct 21, 2005

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Depends on the harddrive if its the old style 4 pin connector. Also if you PSU has a plug for it because its a special power conncetor just for Sata drives. My Maxtor needed the special plug in and didnt have a 4 pin connector, but my Raptor did.

 

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• Oct 21, 2005

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you use either one power connector or the other - either the SATA power connector, or the 4-pin molex, not both

 

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my054runner

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• Oct 21, 2005

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Right I know not both. Has anyone ever seen or used this type of coonector?

 

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• Oct 21, 2005

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i've seen em before - its just something to prevent the SATA cable from falling out of the drive & locking up the computer

 

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my054runner

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• Nov 3, 2005

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Ok I finally got the replacements. Any reason though that these dirves show up as removable ones? I have never had that happen before on SATA. It scares me cuz my gf who is the main daytime user clicks whatever pops up and I dont want her hosing the thing while im at work.

 

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• Nov 3, 2005

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Optimize for Quick Removal seems to be the root of the problem.

Start > Run > compmgmt.msc

Expand Device Manager. Expand Disk Drives. Right click on the drive > Properties. Select the Policies Tab and make sure Optimize for Performance and Enable Write Caching are enabled. You will likely have to reboot following this change.

 

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• Nov 3, 2005

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my054runner said:

Ok I finally got the replacements. Any reason though that these dirves show up as removable ones? I have never had that happen before on SATA. It scares me cuz my gf who is the main daytime user clicks whatever pops up and I dont want her hosing the thing while im at work.

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The reason they show up as removeable is because SATA was designed with hotswap capabilities in mind, which is pretty awesome. Do what Xaotic says and you'll be set.