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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Is it safe to use a molex to sata cable that is crimped not moulded to power a shucked drive? (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don't have kapton tape or want to cut wires as I don't have a spare sata power cable. However I do have a molex power cable and a molex to sata 3.3 adapter that came with my Seasonic Focus GX-750 PSU. It only has 4 wires and does not contain a wire for 3.3v power. The sata connector is crimped and not moulded. My shucked WD180EDGZ-11BLDS0 seems to require the 3.3v pin fix.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I removed the pin from the plug on on the psu side of the cable. There are people who think all converters are potentially dangerous.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The molex cable doesn't have the 3.3v pin on the psu side. So I should be ok?