Computer Mod

Step 4 Adding SATA and ATA cables

This is a little bit harder but still pretty easy.

To add a SATA cable you should unplug your hard drive and remove it from your case then plug one end of you SATA cable into the motherboard, find a nice hiding sport for the little box and stick it down useing the tape they provide. Plug the box into a 4 pin power thing and re-attach your hard drive.

Its the same concept with ATA cables (CD-rom cables) just instead of the hard drive being removed the CD-rom is removed.

Comments

[sephiroth67]

Small flaw here. There are still HDDs that use ATA cables, and there are high speed CD and DVD drives that use SATA. I personally have no old style ATA cables anywhere in my rig. Traded it all for nice slender SATA cables!

[shtihl]

the ATA cables you refer to? all drive cables are ATA. SATA and PATA. they mean Serial ATA and Parallel ATA

[sephiroth67]

Very true, though it seems to have become more common to refer to PATA as simply ATA and SATA as...well SATA. Very nice looking set up either way. I'm getting new components in tonight, and I will definitely try to dress her up in a good looking way like this.

[tokymaru]

My custom pc has both ATA cables (which i only included for my old HDD) and SATA, although i haven't taken the time to make all my cables look pretty and organized... ill eventually get around to it....

[shtihl]

the correct name for the ATA cables is IDE cables and the "4 pin power thing" is called a molex connector and what the author is installing in this step is lighted SATA and IDE cables that use el wire.