installing dvd....i found the sata power cable, but where is the sata data cable?
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As noted by earlier responses, HP provides a very good manual. Before making hardware changes, download a copy of this manual and refer to the correct upgrade section. As a long term IT person I strongly recommend you keep H/W manuals in a binder for every piece of equipment (including i/o cards, drives, etc.) you have. This will save you a lot of time, effort and grief when you need to support something in the future.
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DVD drives often do not come with a SATA cable of their own; it must be purchased separately. I found this out when building my first desktop. That being said, you should ask your specific seller of the drive on Amazon if this is the case for your DVD drive.If the DVD drive came with the microserver, ask the seller of the microserver, as a DVD drive is not part of the standard package. Hope this helps.
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I did not install the DVD on my server. So I am not sure they have the data cable for it or not.
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I don't think the SATA data cable is supplied. I had a spare one. Look in the manual for where the connector is on the motherboard. http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=99190 - This link has pictures which show the red additional SATA Cable connected to the motherboard.
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I had one of my graduate students answer the previous question--the answer was right in the manual. Before asking me, why doesn't TRB make sure that s/he read the manual and asked HP.
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Hmmm... I had the opposite problem when I put mine together. I found the data port (located in front left quadrant of mb), but discovered I needed to buy a molex to sata power conversion cable. to get power.
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It's SATA. I know this because I had to open mine up to extract the hard drive.Sadly.
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mine had two parts....the usb connection to the short part of the drive connections and a Model sy-002-5-12 power ac-dc adapter with the sata power to drive part of the connection. each is connected to the drive separately.
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I had no problem using the adapter, all I did was remove the IDE dvd drive from my computer and replaced it with the new sata drive dvd. I then connected the adapter to the sata drive. I then connected the 4 pin power cable to the adapter and the Ide cable to the adapter . all works very well.
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Everything you need is included with regards to power. They won't leave you out in the cold.As for the SATA cable - none needed. The hard disk (as with all of these) plugs directly into a small control board inside of the enclosure. So, if you have a hard disk, they'll provide all the rest for you to have a working external drive.
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It does NOT, as it's an OEM product (bare bones, just the drive). You can pick up a SATA data cable from amazon or one of it's 3rd party amazon marketplace sellers.
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Karen; there are two SATA connectors on the board, one is for SATA to IDE drive, the other is for SATA drive to IDE, and yes there needs to be a power connection.
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you can remove the dvd drive and put a hdd caddy. I did it without problem.
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It comes with 2 sata 6 cables. you need 1 for each hard drive and one for each dvd drive if you only have one of each than you don't need anymore. there are only 2 sata 6 ports, and 4 sata 3 ports. sata 6 cables are backward compatible with 3
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Yes, If you can not find where to plug in to, you need to split power off of a existing power connection of A hard drive or CD/DVD - ROM drive,Splitter cables are available, match to drive closes to location of board. I do not know the physical lay out or what type of drives are in your machine. type of drives are IDE, SATA The connector used on this board is for 3.5 floppy so you may have to go from Hard drive power to floppy power.
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you need to get the SATA cable they are very cheap your unit should have come with one but they are only 2 or 3 dollars
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You can get it at the cable matters site and download it. I did it this way because my computer is an asus transformer t100 and do not have CD drive.
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The disk has the drivers in it. The disk comes in the packaging when you receive the cable. The disk is small, its not the regular size disk. When I received my cable the disk was in between the carboard insert. I loaded it and it worked perfectly. I hope this help.
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There are no SATA cables provided. If you're going to use two drives, you need two SATA cables. However, only one power cable is needed which is nice.
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Yes, the SATA cable is included, but not the power cable. The power cable usually comes with a power supply
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PS: I meant to also add that you should scroll down to Page 7 of 17 in the Sabrent PDF manual; the pics will show how to install the SATA drive using the port on the Sabrent HD enclosure. The old saying... a picture is worth a thousand words applies!! (<;
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There are no data cables/connections to worry about -- put a drive in a slide-out tray and slide it back in, the SATA data/power connections are built into each bay.