I was going to put a second 500 gb drive in my new little HP Vista 64 bit machine, well I got the drive physically inserted, however, when trying to get power to it, I ran into a problem. My drive is SATA, and there are no additional SATA power connections. Is there such a thing as standard power connector to SATA power connector adapter?
My other choice is adding a more powerful power supply, which I may have to do anyway to have enough power for the drive. I question if the 300 watt power supply has enough juice to handle two hard drives. (Phenom 9550 chip with 2.2 gh quad core design, 500 gb HD, CD, that's it other than 6 gig ram, Anyone?
I'm bummed, I really wanted a second HD, but no of no way to power one. If I go standard drive, then it's IDE, maybe it has IDE support, I'd have to see, but I know I have spare SATA inputs.
My other choice is adding a more powerful power supply, which I may have to do anyway to have enough power for the drive. I question if the 300 watt power supply has enough juice to handle two hard drives. (Phenom 9550 chip with 2.2 gh quad core design, 500 gb HD, CD, that's it other than 6 gig ram, Anyone?
I'm bummed, I really wanted a second HD, but no of no way to power one. If I go standard drive, then it's IDE, maybe it has IDE support, I'd have to see, but I know I have spare SATA inputs.
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