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Storage power issue

Reddax
By Reddax
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Hi,

I have the EVGA 550 B3 Power supply. I use this in my home server. My UPS currently reports usage of 75 watts as it doesn't run a GPU.

I currently have 6 hard drives, and 1 SSD. There are two SATA power cables, with 3 connections on each directly from the PSU (6 drives power max in total). So, I have one SATA splitter to 4 connectors, to allow the SSD to have power, this has been working fine.  I've just attempted to add 2 more SSD's and the power cuts off after about 10 seconds of boot, removing the two new SSD's resolves it, so I imagine it's overloading the SATA cable to the PSU.

 

Would I be able to resolve this by just having MOLEX to SATA splitter as my MOLEX power cable isn't used? 

i7 4790k (Hyper 212 Evo); GA-Z87X-UD3H; 16gb G Skill PC3-19200 DDR3 @ 2400MHz; GeForce GTX 1080 ; Corsair CX600M 600W PSU; Samsung 860 EVO 500GB &  3TB HDD; Windows 10 64bit.

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