What does molex?

[MarnixRS]

Hello, i have a question, what does the molex cable? I see it in much videos.

[Oshino Shinobu]

It provides power to a range of devices/components. For the most part, it's used for things like LED strips, fan hubs/controllers and such. It's being used less and less in modern systems. 

[MarnixRS]

Thanks 

 

[knightslugger]

It used to power things like HHDs. These days it's more or less used as a power tap point.

[Guest]

It's a power connector which is becoming obsolete. In the early 2000's it powered hard drives, optical drives and even GPU's.

[Razor Blade]

Molex is actually the name of a business. A lot of people refer to a "Molex connector" in computing as the pin and socket connection used on older peripheral 5.25" form factor computer hardware.

[alexhelvetica]

It's ironic, since the 1st computer peripheral in a computer which used whats ubiquitously now known as the "Molex connector" was released in 1976, that connector was the "AMP MATE-N-LOK 1-480424-0". Molex only released a compatible connector for the AMP MATE-N-LOK 1-480424-0 in 1983, called the Molex 8981.

 

Anyway, that connector is used for peripheral devices, such as 5.25" floppy drives, 5.25" and 3.5" PATA and other older standards for HDDs, older graphics cards and other ISA/PCI/PCIe cards that need more power.

[Giganthrax]

It isn't much used anymore.

 

However, you can stick all sorts of adapters - such as SATA extensions - onto a molex. They're kinda versatile like that.

[andrewmp6]

Years ago like said they use to be used for all your drives like ide roms and ide hard drives and fans.Since sata came out all the drives switched and not much uses it today.