Which plug are you supposed to use for the SATA power cable?

ITnonsavy

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I got the EVGA Supernova 550 G2. It came with the SATA power cable but it have 3 same connectors...I'm not sure which one to use to plug my hard drive. The 3 connectors attached together looks like a "Z" shape. I only know the other end of the cable plugs to the power supply...not sure about the "Z" shaped connectors.

Thanks.
 
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You can connect more than one drive to the power cable in the picture, in fact, it is designed to allow you to do just that. That cable will handle 3 SATA drives and 1 IDE drive. You can hook the SSD to 1 of the SATA connectors and the HDD to the other and off you go!


Thanks.

Umm...I heard something about slave and master drives. Do people still use that?
 


I have a SSD and a hard drive. The SSD will be the one with OS and the hard drive is for storage.
I have the 3 header SATA cable, can I connect two of the headers on both or do I have to use two different 3-header SATA cables?

http://www.techpowerup.com/img/13-07-23/bc050_w_h_2.jpg
The cable I'm referring to is the top one.
 
You can connect more than one drive to the power cable in the picture, in fact, it is designed to allow you to do just that. That cable will handle 3 SATA drives and 1 IDE drive. You can hook the SSD to 1 of the SATA connectors and the HDD to the other and off you go!
 
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