Molex to Sata lose all your data

[OldReliable]

What do you guys do when installing SATA ssds in powermacs? I don’t want to risk melting my Mac with a crappy Molex-Sata power adapter cable.

what is best practice here for a blue and white and a quicksilver?

 

[Nixontheknight]

What do you guys do when installing SATA ssds in powermacs? I don’t want to risk melting my Mac with a crappy Molex-Sata power adapter cable.

what is best practice here for a blue and white and a quicksilver?

there are IDE to SATA adapters which you can use

 

[phunguss]

SSDs take much less power than standard mechanical drives. The only melted Molex-Sata power adapters I have seen are on crypto mining rigs.

B&W are finicky about which SATA-IDE adapters you use.

You have two options:
1. An IDE to SSD adapter on one of the internal IDE chains, read this thread for some caveats.
2. A PCI SATA card, read this thread for caveats.

 

[OldReliable]

Thanks for the info. I’ve already got them both set up with ide-Sata bridges, and I’ve flashed a pci Sata card but got worried reading horror stories about Molex-sata power cords melting.

any tips for picking a Molex-Sata adapter and how to connect them to minimize the risk?

 

[Elemenoh]

Molex to Sata lose all your data​

Sata to Molex win a nice binhex?