Re: SATA HD-- sata power connector or regular power??

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From: jeffrey (jeffrey_at_nospam.okinawa.com)
Date: 12/21/04 

Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 17:28:32 +0900

Hi,

Probably the reason there is both power connectors on your SATA drive is for
those people who has PSU with only the old type connector, not SATA.
Remember not all PSU has SATA power connectors, there are a lot of people
out there with good PSU, but don`t want to spend the money to change it to
just use SATA drives. So your drive is more compatible for users with
either types of PSU.

Jeff

"keisuke" <keisuke@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A94DE59F-48CD-4681-877E-D27B193B1596@microsoft.com...
> yesyes, i understand that i shouldn't plug both at the same time.. sorry i
> didn't explain my question well. and yes, there are both slots on my
> maxtor
> SATA..
> so what would happen if i instead use the regular connector on my maxtor
> SATA that has the regular power connector slot? would my drive be slower
> or
> have any other effects because the SATA power connector might have more
> power
> than the regular one (otherwise, why did they even make a SATA power
> connector if the regular one works?), or would it be like andrew E. said,
> that either would be recommended? thanks.

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