Silly Question Perhaps - SATA Leads

[Bob Huntley]

Hi,

This is probably a silly question, but I've just bought my first PC with
SATA interface. I've order another SATA hard disk to go in - but am unclear
whether it will come with a SATA lead or whether I need to buy one
seperatley.

(The Hard Disk is a WD Raptor 74GB S150. I can't find any mention of the
package contents - so not sure if it will come with a lead or not. I didn't
get a spare lead with the PC).

Thanks in advance,

Bob H.

 

[MCR]

Hi,

This is probably a silly question, but I've just bought my first PC with
SATA interface. I've order another SATA hard disk to go in - but am unclear
whether it will come with a SATA lead or whether I need to buy one
seperatley.

(The Hard Disk is a WD Raptor 74GB S150. I can't find any mention of the
package contents - so not sure if it will come with a lead or not. I didn't
get a spare lead with the PC).

Thanks in advance,

Bob H.

I bought my OEM Sata disk and it didnt come with sata cables, i got two
with my mobo.

 

[JAD]

OEM bare drive? no cable
retail version in the box will come with the cable.

 

[DaveW]

If you ordered the Retail version then it should come with the cable. If
you ordered an OEM version then it will not come with a cable.

 

[Bob Huntley]

Thanks for the replies.

Got my lead yesterday, and I'm now waiting for the HD to arrive.

Bob.

 

[Tick]

I've got a WD Raptor 74 GB 10,000 RPM SATA drive OEM, and it didn't
come with any cables, but I work at a computer store and get em free
anyways. We have so many spares we pretty much give them away.

Great choice of drive though! I've only go the one drive, when I get
enough money I'll get a second and raid them together to increase the
speed a lil more.. as of right now it takes about 14 seconds to load
into windows after post, which is considerably faster than my 7200 RPM
drive