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AlexanderYaw123
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I currently have a kingston a400 240 gb ssd and a 500gb Seagate Barracuda in my setup. My setup is powered by a nameless 500w psu. This psu already in my setup for 10 years. I just wanna add a 320gb hitachi drive into in. But there is no more power cable left .  I have still a sata cable head left which is same cable as the Seagate barracuda. So, can i connect the 320gb hdd into the sata cable ? 

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You should be able to attach a splitter and just connect both drives, but I personally would never trust a 10 year old power supply.

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36 minutes ago, AlexanderYaw123 said:

My setup is powered by a nameless 500w psu. This psu already in my setup for 10 years. I

You should replace the PSU.

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I agree that you should replace the PSU. Any PSU from ten years ago is not as well made as the better ones today are. The PSU i one of the most critical compnenets in a comnputer since, if they fail, they can fail catastrophically, either catching your computer on fire or frying all your computer's components.

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