What cables do I need for a new hard drive?

[cate]

G'day,
Wanting to get a new hard drive.
Me eyes are on this 4TB Seagate Barracuda HDD[www.umart.com.au]. And me concern is the HDD may not come with cables/wires.
My existing computer uses some weird 1/4TB SSD but mainly a 1TB Seagate Barracuda HDD, so this 4TB one I'm lookin at should be perfectly compatible with my system.

So, assuming the item does not come with cables, what cables do I need to buy?
Cheers

[Sinister80s]

The required cables for a hard drive should come with your motherboard, a sata data cable. They can be found for cheap online if you no longer have those cables or you have a prebuilt. You will also need to plug the sata cable from your power supply into the hard drive.

[cate]

SinisterPiggy eredeti hozzászólása:

The required cables for a hard drive should come with your motherboard, a sata data cable. They can be found for cheap online if you no longer have those cables or you have a prebuilt. You will also need to plug the sata cable from your power supply into the hard drive.

Alright thanks!
Just be sure, I should get 2x of these "Data cable for SATA HDD" wires[www.umart.com.au] for this hard disk drive[www.umart.com.au]?

[Illusion of Progress]

The PSU in your system should have excess power connectors. It likely does, but it doesn't hurt to check to be sure it does. You'll need one to provide power to the drive.

Only other cable needed would be the data (SATA) cable to connect the drive to the motherboard. You only need one of these per drive. As said above, many motherboards come with a couple (sometimes more). Many drives DON'T come with one included so be sure you have one, and that it is of adequate length.

Be aware that that specific Barracuda drive you're looking at is SMR, and it may not be well suited for your uses.

https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/04/15/seagate-2-4-and-8tb-barracuda-and-desktop-hdd-smr/

Shingled magnetic recording gets more data to disk plates by partially overlapping write tracks, leaving the read track within them clear. Read IO speed is unaffected but data rewrites requires blocks of tracks to be read edited with the new data and rewritten as a new block. This lengthens data rewrite time substantially compared with conventionally recorded drives.

Write-intensive workloads are worse affected by SMR delays than read-intensive workloads. Therefore SMR drives are typically used for archival-type applications and not for real-time mixed or route-intensive use cases.

[[☥] - CJ -]

You have to make sure the cables are SATA III
Not 100% sure that cable is

[Illusion of Progress]

☥ - CJ - eredeti hozzászólása:

You have to make sure the cables are SATA III
Not 100% sure that cable is

Not necessary. Functionally, an SATA cable should be an SATA cable; there shouldn't be anything fundamentally different between an "SATA III" or "SATA II" cable, for example. They will both work and both will transfer data at the same rate. It's typically a marketing spec thrown on that isn't formally anything (to be more exact, the spec for SATA III simply defines a physical locking clip mechanism be included on the cable and that is it).

[[☥] - CJ -]

SATA Cables do have quality differences going between gen 1 and gen 3 where speeds can be affected.

The SATA cable chosen is unknown, but there are other cables on that site specifically labeled SATA III.

As such i stand by my recommendation.

[_I_]

only diff is that a sata1 cable does not have any clips
sata 2-3 are identical and have the clips to hold them in the drive and mobo

[Illusion of Progress]

☥ - CJ - eredeti hozzászólása:

SATA Cables do have quality differences going between gen 1 and gen 3 where speeds can be affected.

The SATA cable chosen is unknown, but there are other cables on that site specifically labeled SATA III.

As such i stand by my recommendation.

I've personally used so-called "SATA II cables" with SATA III drives. There is zero difference between spec unless the individual cable itself is faulty.

https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/1882-sata-cable-test-all-the-same

The data cable OP linked will be fine as long as it is long enough, and doesn't require a right angle connector anywhere.

[[☥] - CJ -]

While all the above points may be true

Quality of the cable can make a difference, its akin to how a low quality charge cable can affect how your smart phone charges. Your charger is up for the task but the cable itself is not.

I have noticed that with certain SATA cables, thats why i mentioned it.