What's the purpose of the pins besides the SATA connector in a hard drive 3.5"?
In 2010 and 2011 iMac hard drives, this pins were a temperature sensor that is connected to the motherboard. I wonder what's the purpose in other non-Apple hard drives. I never saw these in 2.5" hard drives.
The Molex connection HAS 4 pins.
That is what gets connected to the drive.
As I just edited above the 4 pin Molex pin and connector plug in to that location to supply power to the drive from the computer's power supply.
There is both a male and fenale version of this connector.
Same Molex connection female end version.
Done.
If those pins are what I think they are those pins setup a drive as "master" or "slave" drive when a computer has/uses more than one hard drive.
You need to have a small plastic isolator to cover the right pins so that the computer hardware/software boot ROM sees one of the drives as a "master" drive and the other drive/s as "slave" drives.
Apple uses these pins for connecting up the temp sensor in Macs, since iMacs only have one installed hard drive.
No.
Older computers used these to connect up hard drives and optical drives.
They carried both electrical power and data input/output throughput for the drive.
I used to deal with these all the time when working/upgrading different types of tower Macs, I've seen these is G3, G4 and G5 PowerMacs and early Intel Mac Pros.
These connector pins carry both power AND data throughput.
I always called these SATA connectors.
Molex to Serial ATA ( SATA) connectors
I thought master/slave wasn't used any more...
Nevermind.
Actually, looking closer at those pins, those look like the pins for the older SATA connectors.
THAT'S WHAT THOSE REALLY ARE!
Those are the pins for older SATA drive connectors.
I can see those pins in newer drives too. I don't know what the term for these pins is, GPIO (general purpose input output)?
sorry mate, we're not talking of the same. I mean the pins left of the SATA data/power connectors.
that's the data connector, the wider is the power connector. I'm talking about the other little pins on the side.
Edited above.
This is the cable.
It's a Molex connection.
The Molex connection is what carried the power to the drive from the computer"s power supply.
thanks for your answers, but could you read the post before answering? I'm talking of the 4 little pins that the ARROW is pointing to (see picture above).
What's the purpose of the pins besides the SATA connector in a hard drive 3.5"?
