Rusty_S 2018 年 7 月 29 日 下午 1:02
Add on hard drive - First time help
To start off I never really assembled a pc before. I have always wanted to but when the time came to I didnt have the time to invest in it.

With that said I have an Asus G11CD desktop I picked up a couple years ago. I am going to be adding another hard drive to this computer to make my dedicated steam game drive and erase everything from the 780GB section of the partitioned 1TB hard drive I have now and use it for non steam games.

The hard drive I am looking at currently is the Seagate FireCuda 2TB hybrid SSHD. I am also looking at picking up a Monoprice 18" SATA III 6.0 cable and a StarTech SATA power splitter cable, the power splitter cable I am looking at is not the 2 output but the 4 output since they are both the same price.

Now my big question is, what I have picked out is it going to work as in plug in properly or did I pick out incorrect parts?
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Omega 2018 年 7 月 29 日 下午 1:08 
Are you sure you need a SATA power splitter? Doesn't your PSU have a few unused SATA power cables left?

Firecuda drives are fine. Fanboys will start pushing for WD Black in 3.. 2.. 1.. :steammocking:

It doesn't really matter what SATA data cable your buy, as long as it's a III cable.
最后由 Omega 编辑于; 2018 年 7 月 29 日 下午 1:11
_I_ 2018 年 7 月 29 日 下午 1:10 
most power supplies have 4+ sata power connectors
check if it has an extra one that you can use before ordering a splitter
Rusty_S 2018 年 7 月 29 日 下午 1:22 
引用自 Omega
Are you sure you need a SATA power splitter? Doesn't your PSU have a few unused SATA power cables left?

Firecuda drives are fine. Fanboys will start pushing for WD Black in 3.. 2.. 1.. :steammocking:

It doesn't really matter what SATA data cable your buy either, as long as it's a III cable.

The other drive I was looking at was a Seagate IronWolf drive that is 8TB with a 256MB cache. Guy I know on a fb group for games told me to go with the Firecuda he loves them as they are as close to getting to a SSD as you can get without actually having an SSD speed wise. I also like the $97 price tag for the 2TB Firecuda better than the $250 for the 8TB Ironwolf.

Thats good to know on the cable. I havent opened the case up before but I know this is a oem Asus power supply and I know adding on a second drive will require me buying another cable. I saw this daisy chain style SATA power supply cable and thought well maybe that would be best for me as its $5 for that vs spending $5 for a splitter and then another $5 for a power cable. But if the power supply has more SATA power connectors then I would gladly go with just a power supply cable vs removing the current cable and installing a daisy chain cable.

The only thing that has me wary right now is the motherboard, I dont know what it is other than its an Asus brand board. Everyones been telling me it should have another SATA port for at least one more hard drive. So I hope what ive been hearing is correct as I am looking at $105 for the hard drive, power supply cable splitter, and the sata cable itself.



引用自 _I_
most power supplies have 4+ sata power connectors
check if it has an extra one that you can use before ordering a splitter

I honestly dont know. I havent opened this case yet. Was still under warranty and I think now nearly 2 years later the warranty is about up. All I know is the power supply is what ever Asus put in this G11CD which is not the current G11CD, mine doesnt have a SSD, mine is the previous iteration of the G11CD. The splitter I am looking at how ever is this one here.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0086OGN9E/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1

From the way I understand it, its a power cable and splitter all in one. Just plug the male end into the power supply and you now have 2 or 4 female ends to plug directly into your hard drives. This effectively eliminates the need for two cables and only need one. But now if my power supply has a SATA power connection to plug into that is not being used then I much rather for a clean upgrade to just simply purchase just a SATA power cable and plug it in vs having this daisy chain setup.

I know my case has no windows in it other than the red some what transparent sliver. But I am trying to do things nice since now that warranty is up I am going to be opening the case on a more regular basis for cleaning and maybe upgrading.
最后由 Rusty_S 编辑于; 2018 年 7 月 29 日 下午 1:24
Omega 2018 年 7 月 29 日 下午 1:30 
Firecuda drives are slower then Western Digital performance drives such as Gold and Black at first. But once the drive has the data stored in the flash memory it will heavily outperform any HDD.

Opening the case does not void the warranty. With companies like Asus you have the right to self repair. Your PSU most likely does have extra power cables, open the case and check. If it really does not have any extra SATA power connectors check if it has a free Molex connector. It's best to not daisy chain devices this way unless you really have to.
Rusty_S 2018 年 7 月 29 日 下午 5:48 
Thanks for the replys. Ill try to make some time next weekend to open the case up before I boot up for the day. Might also pick up something to blow the inside of the case out as I havent opened it since I got it so might be dusty in side. Doesnt hurt to blow the case out while im checking for an extra SATA power cable.
Rusty_S 2018 年 7 月 30 日 下午 5:27 
Looks like I am good to go. I took the side panel off after work today just moments ago. Dont see anything on the PSU as its probably on the other side since my PSU mounts on the top side of my Asus case. But I looked at the power cable for the existing hard drive and Asus installed a daisy chain power cable for hard drives. Guess its standard as this G11CD has came with a couple differnet hard drive configurations even including a SSD. So I dont need to buy a power cable so that is a plus. Tray wise I have only one 3.5 inch tray above the existing hard drive so I can mount the hard drive there. It looks like I also have one SATA port but its hard to see with my GPU so I hope it is a functional SATA port and not a dummy. Will need to use some long needle nose pliers to plug in unless I go pulling the GPU out to get hand room.

So for me I only have 1 hard drive expansion I can do unless there is another Sata open behind the two above the two I am looking at. I see one but hard to see if the one behind is open or not. If is then I might upgrade by adding a SSD later on.
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