Hi,
I have an old Dell T7500 workstation that I have been using since 2012.
It has 4 drive bays & I used to run 2 x 500GB SSds and 2 x 3TB totaling 4 drives.
But now I can barely run 1 SSD & 1 HDD & that too if I used power from molex connector. Regular SATA port won't handle more than 1 SSD 0r HDD.
If I use regular SATA-3 connectors, one of HDDs or SSDs would disconnect any time especially when I am writing data to large 3 TB HDDs.
I had replaced replaced the 1100W PSU in 2018 when original failed.
I have also replaced SATA cables many times.
(1) Is it safe to run SSDs or HDDs using molex power ?
(2) Is this a PSU problem ? If so how does 4 or 5 Watt power that SSD or HDD uses would impact an 1100W PSU ?
(3) Is there something else that affects this disconnections ?
Thanks
I have an old Dell T7500 workstation that I have been using since 2012.
It has 4 drive bays & I used to run 2 x 500GB SSds and 2 x 3TB totaling 4 drives.
But now I can barely run 1 SSD & 1 HDD & that too if I used power from molex connector. Regular SATA port won't handle more than 1 SSD 0r HDD.
If I use regular SATA-3 connectors, one of HDDs or SSDs would disconnect any time especially when I am writing data to large 3 TB HDDs.
I had replaced replaced the 1100W PSU in 2018 when original failed.
I have also replaced SATA cables many times.
(1) Is it safe to run SSDs or HDDs using molex power ?
(2) Is this a PSU problem ? If so how does 4 or 5 Watt power that SSD or HDD uses would impact an 1100W PSU ?
(3) Is there something else that affects this disconnections ?
Thanks
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