Molex to SATA Adapters - Why you should avoid them!
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
- This is why you should avoid using Molex to SATA power adapters, and switch to something safer.
If you have any Molex horror stories share them in the comments!
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have you ever had a bad experience with these evil adapters? have you thrown yours away?
@@Jakef100f kek
I've been using these type of adapters for 11 years, just buy a non-china made 😂 LOL
Haha mine caught on fire just yesterday. I saw the whole thing and quickly pulled power plug when I saw a ball of yellow light inside my case 😱. It scared the hell out of me. Luckily SSD was ok. It has caught on fire 🔥 before killing DVD drive that I never used lol 🤣. Pretty sure they were the same cheap Chinese ones. I am gonna power SSD directly now.
Many data center drives don't work without them with a normal power supply. Alternatively you can also tape over pin #3 on the SATA power connector.
Mine touched the case and began burning. I quickly turned the PC off and escaped with only ~15cm of cable burnt. PC took no damage.
Says Molex connectors have a lot of drawbacks, including arching that can melt the housing. Shows a molten SATA connector. Continues to say that the arching happens on the SATA end because the SATA lanes are closer together. Sounds to me that Molex isn't the issue, it's poor manufacturing on the SATA side of the cable, because SATA tolerances are much tighter. A cheap adapter probably doesn't have those SATA connections insulated enough from each other, which is causing the arching. Just get a Molex to SATA adapter from a reputable brand and you're probably fine.
Run for president. Ill vote
Run for Prime Minister, I'll vote
Look up molded vs crimped sata connectors. Molded ones catch fire way more often
Building white boxes since 1985. Never had a problem. Never seen one.
Did I hear you correctly? They have Capacitors that kill the wire instead of the device connected to the adaptor? I'm no electronic engineers, but I fail to see how a capacitor would contribute to protecting an electronic circuit. Surely you mean Fuse (Which is just a Resistor designed to fail before the rest of the circuit).
Yes, I got that sentence a bit jumbled, each rail has its own capacitor to ensure a smooth flow of the correct voltage to the rail and it is also fused incase of a short. Well spotted.
I think I'm going to take my chances.
How is it?
@@pixelatednoose3999 he died in a fire...
@@gamerkangaroo1513 He will be remembered as the SATA power connector guy.
@@pixelatednoose3999 "that burned his house down"
Molex served old PC CDROM/DVD and HDD fine over the years...
I had a dying ssd. So I took it out and plugged it into an external molex PSU with sata adaptor. Now the ssd is completely dead. But I still remain unconvinced it was the sata adaptor that did it. I have used these adaptors plenty of times in the past with no problems. I did have one burning occasion where the molex connector smoked, but the hard drive stayed fine. That molex was a moulded unit that was part of the power supply. So it wasn't an adaptor.
Huh, been using an adapter I built myself for years and never had a problem. Guess i got lucky.
I grow my own tomatoes, chop my own wood for the fireplace, and even make my own CPUs. It's time-consuming but well worth it.
I wish I'd seen this before I ordered that Molex to SATA adaptor on Amazon.
I have used these several times. Never had any problems. You just need to make sure you have a proper connection. The problem is that these Molex Male apapters have the 4 pins loose, so you need to make sure they are connected properly. A good idea is to secure the molex/wire part with tape, so it stays proper connected.
Hi Jon
I want to add another hard disk to my pc
But i don't have any power cable for a new hard disk
Do u advice me to buy a molex cable?
Or are there any other solutions to solve my problem
@@alishahoud2614 ive used molex to sata for around 7 years now and no problems
hi, may i ask a question,, if i using sata-molex cable for usb 3.0 pcie, should be okay or not?
@@alishahoud2614did you get solution??
@@tipeshsahu588 jajajajaja
I sold my rotten PC.
And i bought a new laptop..
Didn't think silverstone would make something like that, cheers for the helpful video!
And my molex cable that converts molex into pcie cable did burn off but not no the degree that it melted the plastic, rather my pc turned off and my molex had one cable burned off rather then all of em.
I missed this comment! That's lucky, they should really stop making these, even now some GPU companies are still shipping them with there cards. Did everything survive?
Of course it did, if one power connector were to suddenly shut off then the whole pc would turn off aswell as far as i know. thanks psu.
I never knew gpu compnaies still sent out these stuff, that worrying..
MUSiCK ➈ the PSU will save the day most of the time, but there is a chance it could do some damage or catch fire before the power shorts and cuts out. Another reason why a good quality PSU is important
They are fine, I have like seven of them in my case that have been going for five years so far without issue.
I had one for 6 years and today it caught fire, I almost lost my computer and my house, if I hadn't been there, it was terrifying as hell.
my HDDs use molex to sata adapters and they haven't been an issue for 2 years now
Query what happens when the capacitors fail? wouldn't that cause an equal amount if not worse damage?
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Not all HDD can be used with this. Somehow my 7200.12 doesn't work with molex to sata, yet it works perfectly with sata power 🤔
How is this different from a SATA connector crimped onto a four way cable from a PSU?
Most PSU companies actually care if the product survives. Most molex to sata adapters are made by no name companies that don't care about what people say about their products because they sell to companies that rebrand them.
You are wrong. I been using molex to sata adapters for a loooooooooooong time.. No problems...... Stop making fake videos.
I haven't had ever issues with adapters. But in years I never needed something again because my PSU always have enough connectors.
Then how to connect case fan directly to the PSU ?
Maybe we should add some capacitors to the Molex to SATA cable
I'm planning on putting an SSD into my grandads PC, he has a 1tb HDD currently but the PC bootup time takes forever. My plan was to keep the HDD as it has lots of pictures and stuff on but get an SSD just for windows to speedup the startup time. Was going to get a 120gb as that's fine for just windows but when opening his PC to check it the PSU only has 2 of the cables that plugin to HDDs/SSDs and they're both occupied by the HDD & a disk drive so how else can I gain another connection for an SSD without the molex adapter?
But the sata power cables are so narrow....try taking a voltage measurement without shorting anything. If I suspect my power supply is bad, taking voltage measurements off of a molex is easy. So, if there a rig/jig to easily test the voltages off a sata power connector?
Look up power supply tester. You plug in the cable and it'll tell you if it's supplying the right voltages or not.
I would say it depends on how the connector is made some higher quality ones should not be a problem like crimped satas for example
It's often the molded ones that failes
I want to add ssd to my pc But i don't have any power cable for a new ssd
should i buy a molex cable Or are there any other solutions to solve my problem
@@farelrizky6453did you get solution
do you have any other recommendations other than the silverstone ones? the one u recommended is 80$ here
I wasn't seeing the point in the video until the very end. Turns out it was an add.
Sadly a sata splitter wouldn't work for the pc i was thinking of, its an old one but it has Sata Data ports, but no sata power.
If we try the opposite? From sata to molex adapter? Will it be also dangerous?
That may be true 2:05 about the amount of connections a SATA plug has vs the Molex, you see the wires going into the plugs themselves? The SATA plug has the same wires that the Molex plug has... Same Wires, different connectivity perimeters within plugs themselves. The Adapters are probably poorly made and why they would burn.
I faced the problem like my hard drive or dvd was not reading or disconnected suddenly. So I don't use that adapter anymore. But my frontech psu 800watt has only 3 sata connector which is not enough for me. I need atleast 4.
My dads computer crom 2010-11 only used molex to sata addapter and hand no sata on the power supply. The hard drive had a molex connector but there was a sticker on it saying not to use the molex connector. I plugged in the more it's connected directly into the hard drive rather than using the adapter and the hard drive seems like it's span up perfectly fine and was readable and everything and worked perfectly fine.
Now im wondering if i can use it in my current rig or not?
Edit: I'm afraid to use a SATA power cable because I threw them all in the box together and when I grabbed one I grabbed one for the wrong power supply because they look identical and ended up frying three hard drives :( one of them was in SSD and it was so hot I literally jerked my hand away as if it where a stove or something.
I can see this being bad for a HDD or SSD but what about a optical drive? I’m thinking about getting one of these to use a old optical drive I have lyin around.
My sata hard drive in one of my my rigs has molex and Sata power. It’s powered by molex.
litterally just fried cable and youtubed reasons why, luckily I used molex to sata for setting up RGB lighting, so while it sucks that this cable fried that connecrion, happy it was on RGB instead of my Hard Drives!!! Dont buy these cables!!!
i used molex to sata sins my childhood till now nothing happens btw
Carry on using it ,dont listen to this guy.
@@AMVedits05 :)
since you suggest not using them what would you suggest to power an external sata drive. I can't use USB. and I have only been able to find molex power bricks. I'm not going to go out of my way to get a huge power supply for a single SATA drive, I already have the sata to esata cable for it but USB will not power this drive.
omg, this is disturbing because my 3 drives are powered by molex to sata connectors, and on one the pins are loose. I have a solid power supply (cooler master real power pro m1000) but i dont have any sata connectors on it, so this is my only option
upgraded a prebuilds psu and after i got done the rgb on the fans stopped working they spin but no light im not really sure what went wrong
GUYS BE cautious, because my PC caught fire today cuz of molex. I had it for 6 years.
? Seasonic psus have not enough molex and too much sata.
I just bought 5 fans that are connected to molex. I Also bought a new power supply will it have an extra Molex to connect too?
"watercalling" xD love the vid btw, and you sir will definetly get somewhere, i cant seem to figure out your accent?
I actually have the opposite I have to many sata power connectors and not enough molex ones.
I do use a molex and 4 pin CPU thing to power the motherboard, but it Shou be fine the molex and 4 pin just split everything in what they usually do.
Will this Sata splitter work to power up the HDDS and fans controller at the same time??
Well I’m getting a new ssd and I’ll have to completely reinstall windows so now I will
What happened to Linus' accent?
I have 1 of these but only a dual Split for DVD drives ,but its branded
DVD drives are quite low risk, your data is what is important
how about if i only use it on case fans and not in any storage devices? will it be okay?
I've used them for years with no problems.
Can I use one to power a Corsair commander pro?
ok your first person that I have seen and heard of having a problem with molex to stata I finally found out why my dvd drive is not opening using stata becouse I got a gold plated psu that was the problem changed it to a molex to stata cable and it worked once again haha not use why this is happening but there ya go
I had one catch on fire inside my PC just today. Scared the hell out of me and triggered the smoke detector. Fortunately it wasn’t connected to a device, since the hard drive I wanted to connect to it two weeks ago didn’t work.
Same thing for me yesterday, thank God I was close to my computer
Can I buy this for my molex fan hub
What else can I use
what about Sata to Molex?
Hi, do you have a direct link to where I can buy one of these sata to molex converters which are safe to use?
he won't because he believes all of them are terrible
Its not the molex part its the sata power part
Is it okay to use for triple argb fans?
I have both sata and molex on my power supply what shall I do
If it comes straight from the power supply, it's fine. It's only the third party adaptors that are an issue
@@BuzStringer ok thank you for replying
Thanks for your
I use sata to molex but never molex to sata
what about molex to 4 pin adapter for second cpu power connector needed
My friends
Wait your motherboard needs a second cpu power connector? So that is that the third cable coming off of my power supply that isn't the modular part is for. My motherboard only has the normal 24 pin and the 8 pin EPU plug.
@@bland9876 yes i have a server motherboard lenovo s30 with 8pin right+ 4pin left cpu cables need to plug in to fully operates the motherboard i guess
so much misinformation here... molex to sata fails at the female sata end only due to arcing the way you said it sounds like its the molex's female that fails on a "molex to sata adaptor"?? don't know how that works but ok....
2nd problem... surprisingly older molex to sata adapters are the ones that are least likely to fail... its the newer and cheaper kinds that tends to fail... because of manufacturing tolerances and the way they are manufactured... those that are done by injection molding to the wires are out of the question immediately as the wires can move about during the injection process increasing the failure rate exponentially in each production batch of these adaptors...
those that are made by clipping through or soldered to prongs for each pins are least likely to fail especially if they have the comb separators for the small prongs connectors placed properly so that in between each prongs there is no air for the connectors to arc to...
molex was actually a very good idea for a connector... this is from a person who started build computers during sata connectors era... the only problem is the way the male and female metal contacts are designed that is flawed as they can move about inside the connectors and making it easier to damage on either end... the solution is kinda brain dead simple... just make it like our PSU connectors to our components each pin female and male has an individual housing that can protect the pins... but its too late to fix it since sata is much slimmer and we have designed most things to suit these sata connectors now.... and with sata power connectors, they can put stupid things such as shucking prevention detection with sata power connectors... yes this is a thing and if we used the brain dead simple 4 connector design, shucking prevention through the power pins would be impossible...
on top of all of this, sata to sata extensions are also still prone to this problem.... if the manufacturing tolerance is just as bad, it will burn itself... the problem of arcing exist due to bad sata connectors because their pins are designed so close to each other...
Excellent points, thank you. The Shucking prevention is pretty terrible, but can be overcome with electrical tape or an adaptor.
I am using Molex to 4-way SATA Power for my mining rigs. Have not yet found a brand that's decent.
All the ones that I've had burned. I think I've gone through 5 of them now.
Would appreciate it, if anyone suggested a respectable brand.
Thanks in advance.
Avoid molex altogether and split the sata power with these kit.com/BuzStringer/server-setup/silverstone-technolo
@@BuzStringer what about molex to 4 pin adapter for second cpu power connector needed
My friends
Buz Stringer I have a Rosewill case that has to use molex to power the drive cages. What cable would you recommend?
Good evening Sir. How about case cooling fans using molex power cables? You know I'm using 2 case cooling fans connected to only 1 molex connector. Thanks
i bought sata cable for 5$
ARRIVE. RAISE HELL. LEAVE.
THIS IS A STRINGER ALONG. He is full of it. The failure he shows is on the sata, not the molex, BUY from a known supplier.
Great i wasted a buck
A least you won't waste another