Sata cables on a hard drive

[dylants]

I am building my own personal pc with an 8 tb ironwolf hard drive from seagate. What sata and power connectors does it have? I need to know the number of pins so that I can order some cables from cablemod.

[79wjd]

It uses standard Sata data and sata power cables, there aren't any options. 

[dylants]

1 minute ago, djdwosk97 said:

It uses standard Sata data and sata power cables, there aren't any options. 

I have an option for 3 and 4 pin. What is the difference? What are they used for?

[79wjd]

Just now, dylants said:

I have an option for 3 and 4 pin. What is the difference? What are they used for?

links? 

 

Is it talking about the number of SATA power connectors on a single cable maybe? 

[dylants]

https://store.cablemod.com/configurator/

It gives options for 3 sata power options. (double, triple, quad)

[79wjd]

Just now, dylants said:

https://store.cablemod.com/configurator/

It gives options for 3 sata power options. (double, triple, quad)

That's the number of SATA power connectors on a single cable. 

[dylants]

Just now, djdwosk97 said:

That's the number of SATA power connectors on a single cable. 

I'm still a bit confused. Which one should I get for one hard drive and one sata ssd?

[79wjd]

2 minutes ago, dylants said:

I'm still a bit confused. Which one should I get for one hard drive and one sata ssd?

You could get a dual cable and have no remaining connectors on that cable if you wanted to add another drive, you could get a triple cable and have an extra connector, or you could get a quad cable and have two extra connectors. 

 

This might help, this is an extension cable, so pretend one of those goes into the PSU, then you'd have 4 connectors for drives-- this would be a "quad" cable.

[Murilo_A]

Just now, dylants said:

I'm still a bit confused. Which one should I get for one hard drive and one sata ssd?

Double, (triple if you want to upgrade in the future) let me explain better, there is a single cable that goes into your PSU, and from that cable, comes 1, 2, 3 or 4 SATA power that you connect to a HD or SSD

[CableMod]

10 hours ago, dylants said:

I'm still a bit confused. Which one should I get for one hard drive and one sata ssd?

@dylants you would either want one dual SATA power, or two single SATA power cables. It would depend on your case, how close is your HDD to your SSD?

[dylants]

On 5/6/2017 at 7:11 PM, CableMod said:

@dylants you would either want one dual SATA power, or two single SATA power cables. It would depend on your case, how close is your HDD to your SSD?

They are pretty far apart. I just bought a sata power and data cable from your store for my ssd and used the supplied cables for my hard drive. Thanks for offering to help though!