Dell Optiplex 3060 PSU with just 8Pin and 4pin P4 - SATA power?

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I ran into a spare Optiplex 3060 (i3-8100 4gb)
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The problem is that its PSU only has 2 connectors, an 8-Pin and P4 4-Pin.
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They both plug into the MB.
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This board obviously can take an NVMe drive.

Well my problem is while I have buckets of old skool SATA SSDs, I have no spare NVMe drives.

Are there any cables that can "split" either the 8Pin or 4Pin connector to SATA power(s) cables? I was hoping to actually use all 3 SATA ports for 256gb SSD drives I have (SSDs dont use that much power) might be fun to run them in RAID 0 to see what they do.

Thanks for any help.
 
The psu has a 4 and 6 pin, not 8.

on those Dell systems, the hard drives get power from the motherboard via that small black 8 pin connector to an adapter cable. You should be able to get one on ebay, but it will only power two drives. You'd need a SATA power splitter for a third drive.

You couldn't splice the power cables from the psu because those only put out 12v. SATA power connectors also have 5v and 3.3v on them. Youd need some sort of active power module inline.
 
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