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Custom diy HDD power cables

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Where can I find crimp on old molex style power connectors?

I need them asap so they have to be from the US. I have found some in asia, but time is a bit of the matter.

 

Basically, I have a wall mount file server. completely open pentium 4 based system. looks great, but a bit messy in practice. Unfortunately one of the drives is dieing and so I now have 12 ide 320gB drives on the way and I am going to wall mount all of them in a stack and somehow cablemanage all 12 ribbons to the controller as efficiently as possible. It's going to look amazing.

 

So I completely forgot the drives need power though. oops. so my plan is a nice neat single cable with 12 female connectors and two males for input.

But I just cant find the damn things anywhere in the US! Anyone have any ideas where I can find these? or maybe some search terms? I'd prefer amazon prime but I'll take anything US atm.

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http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR11.TRC1.A0.H0.Xmolex+to+sata.TRS0&_nkw=molex+to+sata&_sacat=0

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Get a couple of old PSUs (the kind that only have molex plugs) and cannibalize them. Ghetto ftw.

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Get a couple of old PSUs (the kind that only have molex plugs) and cannibalize them. Ghetto ftw.

I may just do that temporarily. But I really want this to not look like crap because it kind of sits literally to the right of my monitor.

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