HDD Cable broken, please help me replace it

[Kingslayer13]

Hello everyone! 

I'm using an old HDD and today I was about to buy a WD Blue except my Sata cable which is a 6GB/s one (Pictures below) broke and from what I've read the wd blue doesn't come with cables. My Motherboard, an Asus Z97 Pro-Gamer comes with 4 6GB/s ports and 1 Sata express  port (dont exactly know much about what this means to be honest) but i know that the WD Blue uses 6GB/s cables (correct me if I'm wrong).

So my question is , to connect a WD Blue to my PC i will need my PSU cable and sata III female cables like these ones? (the link is an image to a Nanoxia 4x SATA-III Female).

Pictures of the broken cable in question: its a 7PIN one (the part that goes into the HDD broke, the motherboard end is intact) 

[lieder1987]

looks like a standard SATA cable to me.

[NoobCase]

A normal sata cable. It only looks to be the clip that is broen on yours. So it should still work in theory.. It will just fall  out easy. 

[DnFx91]

man that's not a forumworthy problem, SATA cables are like £2 at maplin

[Mighty_Miro_WD]

Hi @Kingslayer13!

 

This is a standard SATA cable which you can easily replace with a new one. Furthermore, there is not really a lot of difference between the SATA II and SATA III cables as far as performance goes.

 

Just keep attention to the specific length you need when you select the replacement and if you want you can specifically check for a cable with locking mechanism which will prevent the drive from slipping out.

 

Cheers!