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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 11 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 11 months ago (1 children)

Personally I will forever be a 3.3v cutter. Have yet to see a sata device that required it, if anyone wants to correct me with a modern sata drive of the last 10 years that needs it, I’d love to be corrected.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It is not even part of the spec anymore because almost nothing used it. The idea makes a bit of sense when you consider that micro HDDs were a thing for some time and newer M.2 connector is 3.3v only.