Custome Sata cables

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Might not be the best place to post this but semi-related.

Looking for a place that makes custom sata cables. For example we all seen the 90 degrees sata cables however I am hoping to find the opposite 90 degrees sata cables. One that goes the opposite way. Stuff like that.

Also anyone know where I can pick up some spindles of power supply "wiring" and sata power "plugs"?
 
DTN107 said:
Might not be the best place to post this but semi-related.

Looking for a place that makes custom sata cables. For example we all seen the 90 degrees sata cables however I am hoping to find the opposite 90 degrees sata cables. One that goes the opposite way.
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Why not just twist the cable around?
 
DTN107 said:
Normally I would but when it involves 12-16hdds in a row it can be quite frustrating :(.
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How are you trying to route them? <Meaning, pics of the case and how the drives are going to be mounted>
 
It will be in a lian-li full tower V2000.

Forgot who owns these pictures (I grab them from the "rate my cable" tread. Sorry about using your pictures without permission) but we have the same case.

I want to do my sata cables similar to this. However I think I'm going to try to hide them.


Also want to try this with the power cables.
 
You could just get straight cables and not mess with right angled cables. I own the Lian-Li 201b and I know how hard it is to route cables.

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I should really fix that.

And to answer you question, I don't know of a place that has right angled cables that you are looking for.
 
DTN107 said:
Looking for a place that makes custom sata cables. For example we all seen the 90 degrees sata cables however I am hoping to find the opposite 90 degrees sata cables. One that goes the opposite way. Stuff like that.
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http://www.performance-pcs.com/cata...th=353&zenid=ec88e742512a85b6376285a162832131


There's some right and left 90 degree angle sata cables there. I linked their left angle cables because I'm guessing cables that's the kind you're looking for. I believe they are the ones that will route up as opposed to down, with the drive in a standard mounting (PCB side facing down).
 
Heres my V2000 file server. I zip tie all my sata cables together to keep it neat and tidy.
have to really when you have 11 drives
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What are the lengths of those sata cables you guys are buying?

My 18" aren't cutting it and I'm worry that 24" are not long enough.

P.S. Thanks alot evilcartman! Can't wait to order some!
 
You can find "left" angle cables- sometimes called 270*.

www.satacables.com has the best selection I could find, though their checkout/shopping cart sucks monkey ass. Use IE.
 
DTN107 said:
It will be in a lian-li full tower V2000.

Forgot who owns these pictures (I grab them from the "rate my cable" tread. Sorry about using your pictures without permission) but we have the same case.

I want to do my sata cables similar to this. However I think I'm going to try to hide them.


Also want to try this with the power cables.
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Top picture is an older picture of my case. For the SATA cables, I just used a million zip ties to keep everything together. I would post more pictures to clarify, but I sold that RAID controller and the cables for it. If you want the power cables to be neat, you just need to get this and this.
 
Blue Fox said:
Top picture is an older picture of my case. For the SATA cables, I just used a million zip ties to keep everything together. I would post more pictures to clarify, but I sold that RAID controller and the cables for it. If you want the power cables to be neat, you just need to get this and this.
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Thanks!

I'm a bit of a noob to PSU.

I notice that the sata power wires have 5 wires and the normal 4 pin molex has 4 wires.

Would it be stable to add those extra sata connectors onto the 5 wire power sata lines? Or would the 4 pin molex lines provide more power?
 
DTN107 said:
Thanks!

I'm a bit of a noob to PSU.

I notice that the sata power wires have 5 wires and the normal 4 pin molex has 4 wires.

Would it be stable to add those extra sata connectors onto the 5 wire power sata lines? Or would the 4 pin molex lines provide more power?
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Use either of them, but don't use both on the drive.
 
"Collinear Device for SATA and Peripherals", wherein there are four wires to provide power for 4-pin power connector, including: the first yellow wire, which outputs +12V DC, the second black wire and the third black wire, whichare ground wires, and the fourth red wire, which outputs +5V DC; there are five wires to provide power for a SATA power connector, including: the first yellow wire, which also outputs +12V DC, the second black wire, which is ground wire, the third redwire, which outputs +5V DC, the fourth black wire, which is also ground wire, and the fifth orange wire, which outputs +3.3V DC.
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There's your difference between the SATA and molex plugs.

I think that extra SATA wire is for the hot-swap feature.
 
The 3.3v lines are required for hot-swap to work. They aren't necessary for hard drives to operate, however, my SSD for example, is 3.3v only, so it does have its uses.
 
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