Most, though not all, cables indicate the pin 1 side by coloring the outermost wire on that side differently from the rest.
Also, on some cables there's a blocked hole in the middle ensuring that the cable will only fit on the drive one way.
A Molex Connector connects to optical drives and hard drives.
To start, the hard drive cable connects your hard drive to your motherboard. Its really simple.
The cable connects between the motherboard of the computer and the hard-drive or optical drive.
A 7-pin cable that connects to an external drive is typically a SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) cable. This cable is used to transfer data between the external drive and a computer, providing a fast and efficient connection for hard drives and solid-state drives. The 7 pins facilitate both data transmission and power supply for the connected device.
The SCSI cable.
external hard drive
1. A floppy cable will almost always contain a small "twist" in it, in which a port of the wires are turned in reverse.2. A floppy cable has 34 pins. A PATA hard drive cable has 40 pins.
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There are two cables that connect to the floppy drive in a desktop computer.There is a four pin power cableThere is a ribbon cable that has a part twisted end (the twisted end connects to the floppy drive).
An internal hard-drive fits into a bay inside the computer's tower. A power cable from the power unit is plugged into the hard-drive. A data cable plugs the hard-drive into the motherboard.
There are two, an IDE Cable which is an "older style" that is gradually being replaced by the SATA Cable.
Hard drive