When using this cable, does it reduce the power avbl to each drive? Also, after connected, do the drives appear as separate drives in Win Explorer?
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Its just a power run. If your psu has enough wattage it'll be fine. Look at the 4 pin power connectors....they're all pigtailed (runs). Explorer sees drives depending on sata/ide...has nothing to do with power connections.
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1. The power available to the drives is determined by the power supply. The more drives you hook up, the more power you use. Read the specs on your power supply, they will tell you how many amps are available.2. The power cable has no affect on what shows up in windows explorer, Windows does not know what is connected to the power. If you hook up to devides with power and with their SATA data cables, they will both show in Windows explorer, buy only if you hook them up with the SATA Cables.
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This is a power cable only, no data on this cable. It does not have any influence on how the drives show up in Windows. It does not change the power from the power supply, it's just a SATA power "Y" cable. It serves the same function as a Molex Y cable.
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Your power supply needs to have enough power for every component in your system. If that is the case then each drive will have sufficient power. Each drive will still appear to be a separate drive unless you configure the drives as a raid; this cable simply provides power to the drive. You will also need a SATA cable to connect the drive to the controller.
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Of course every drive you attach to your system will use more power. The cable itself don't use power the cable just provides more connections for you to use more hard drives. To answer your 2nd question yes they will show up each with its own drive letter. If you create a raid setup then you will have one drive letter for each raid setup.
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That's exactly what I'm doing and why I bought this; however I am certainly no hardware guru. It takes a while for it to show upon explorer (4-5 secs), windows needs to read it, etc. I would go to the internet and find a forum that has a topic for hardware, giving them the model, intent, etc. Let me know what you find out. I am interested. My final goal it to set up a RAID, still need one more hard drive.
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I used one of these enclosures today ( an older generation ide version) The drive drew too much power from the single usb cable, so it needed a usb power cable as well. (Standard usb on one end goes in computer, the other end is a power tip.) I thought they were generic. I had it from another old enclosure. (Drives used to take more power so often came with more power cables), generally if they require over 500mA (look on the drive), it can't be powered by 1 usb port alone, I believe. Not sure on firewire, I think it can handle more power.
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I haven't noticed any decrease in performance between the powered 3.0 drive and the 2.0 flash drives I have plugged into this hub. They work at their rated speed for the most part. For the most part the computer's controller chip and the device controller work those issues out unless there bad programming involved
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Mine had trouble Driving a 15ft. high speed cable at 1080p -- I got intermittent operation -- so I sent it back. I can't say whether that was a limitation of the design, or my specific unit was weak/bad. In general, drive capability depends on not just the splitter, but also on cable quality and even on resolution of the signal. You can try to use a good 50 ft. cable (say, 26AWG, which will easily cost more than the splitter itself). Based on my experience, I doubt it will work reliably, though.
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I just plugged 1ssd and one sata drive. I think two ports are hight speed but I dont remenber. whats the plan with that huge setup?
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I honestly don't know about the speed comparisons you're citing, or the HD connections. The person for whom I bought this machine doesn't care about either one! I'd guess "No" on the HD, but I wouldn't want my life to depend on the answer. Sorry!
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To my knowledge, the larger ones (1TB +) seem to have external power. The smaller ones (less than 1TB) are just powered by USB. Those are the ones I have anyway.
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I wondered the same thing when I got mine. I believe you are correct in saying one for power and one for data. I have always used both. You could just try one cable and see if it works. I thought I read in one of the reviews somewhere that with one cable blu ray didn't play right. You would just have to try it and see. Sorry I could't be more helpful.
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Short answer, I don't know. I have two 4TB HD's. I'm actually using an O!play player now which has only one USB input. I'm forced to switch input cables whenever I change from one drive to another. Pain in the a##. I never thought of using a port (duhh). My advice to both of us would be to buy any powered port. Save your receipt. If it works, great. If it doesn't, return it.
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two cables are included...one for power, one for data.. ours was a seamless use with vista...
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I have installed two of these units in a single case. All recent OS - XP SP1 and above in Windows' case - will work because they support SATA configurations. It's more an issue of your BIOS being able to support hot swapping - if that is your reason for using the device. Should this not be the case, which I doubt, you will need to power down the system before exchanging disks. Please take into account that each drive requires a separate SATA cable, so the number of available SATA ports is the real concern here. SATA 2 or 3 is dependent on your drives and motherboard; nothing to do with the rack. Power consumption will also hike; check your power supply capacity. I hope this is helpful. I have installed two of these units in a single case. All recent OS - XP SP1 and above in Windows' case - will work because they support SATA configurations. It's more an issue of your BIOS being able to support hot swapping - if that is your reason for using the device. Should this not be the case, which I doubt, you will need to power down the system before exchanging disks. Please take into account that each drive requires a separate SATA cable, so the number of available SATA ports is the real concern here. SATA 2 or 3 is dependent on your drives and motherboard; nothing to do with the... » Read More I have installed two of these units in a single case. All recent OS - XP SP1 and above in Windows' case - will work because they support SATA configurations. It's more an issue of your BIOS being able to support hot swapping - if that is your reason for using the device. Should this not be the case, which I doubt, you will need to power down the system before exchanging disks. Please take into account that each drive requires a separate SATA cable, so the number of available SATA ports is the real concern here. SATA 2 or 3 is dependent on your drives and motherboard; nothing to do with the rack. Power consumption will also hike; check your power supply capacity. I hope this is helpful. « Show Less
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Could be more is an issue with the drive encolsure you are using. i have had similar issues with BestBuy's Rocketfish brand enclosures. The Sabrent ones i have oened just had the ide/sata to usb controller die on me.
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Has been so far. :-) We upgraded to Win7 a couple months ago and things kept rolling along. I have a hub plugged into this one and installed in a drive bay so that I have four ports on the front as well, and everything is good. I did blow the internal port by plugging the second hub into that one, but I didn't need it when all was said and done.
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You can buy from Apricorn, $10 plus tax & shipping. You can also use a Y splitter USB cable. I had an older one for their EZ GigII that I had forgotten I had bought, so ordered the Y cable--which can also be used for other devices. So I have both, and ended up using the power supply. My problem is that I have a Dell laptop, and Apricorn software did not do an exact clone, leaving out the Dell partition, thus the resultant drive would not boot, missing the boot sector. Ended up using EaseUS, after trying WD Acronis and Partition Wizard, without success. So the Apricorn ended up just being an expensive enclosure.
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hi... can u explain it clearly . do u have problem installing d drives ???? / or it doesnt work properly with the VLC /Games ext ?????/
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If you are using the power adapter that is supplied with the USB hub the hub then is independently powered and the external drives are more than likely being "tricked" into thinking that there is still an active connection between the drives and the PC, therefore the drives will not turn off with the PC. If you unplug the adapter the external drives should then shut down also. Will the drives being on damage the drives? Not really, because there is no actual activity (reading/writing) taking place when the PC is turned off. Does it use a little electricity? Yes, but it would be minimal. Bottom line, if you are concerned about the drives being left on, unplug the power to the hub and they should shut down. If it means anything, I have a PC that I built with 5 Western Digital Black Series 4tb hard drives in RAID 0 and a 2tb external WD My Book attached that run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and they are fine.