Difference between these two cables?

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Drizzla618

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Hello folks, first time poster, long time lurker here...

I am wanting to put an additional 3 TB internal HD into my HP desktop. I successfully installed a seagate barracuda 1 TB about a year ago. I see I have one more HD slot remaining below, as well as one more main SATA slot on the motherboard. My question lies with the power cable.

The SG HD I installed prior was easily connected to a second power cable coming out of the main HD. Now, I am not sure exactly how I'm supposed to power up the 3 TB one. I have these two cords here, but they have a slightly different mix of colors (pics[DELETED]). My other 2 HDs are connected with [orange, black, pink, black yellow] while this other chord I have coming from the power supply is [orange, black, red, black, white]. Are these different?

I guess I should also ask, should I have any reason to suspect my computer/motherboard can't handle an additional 3TB HD or does it not make a difference really?

Thanks.
 
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Hi, thanks.

Hopefully this is a better angle...

The cable comes out of the power supply and goes into the CD/DVD drive. The [orange, black, red, black, white] cable was attached to the wire bundle with a plastic zip tie and wasn't connected to anything. I connected it to the power cable splitting from the CD/DVD drive (much in the same way the power cable split from my primary HD, which I was able to connect to my 2nd HD).
 

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I still can't see the connector itself well. It looks like a SATA power splitter that takes one SATA connector and splits it into two. So you can just plug in one of those into the new HDD.
 
Yup these two connectors looks like SATA.

The splitter will allow you to connect two more HDDs instead of just one .
 
johnb35 said:
Hdd's don't require a lot of power so you are fine with an OEM unit.
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That's true but it's a good insurance to check that you have enough power (although two or three HDDs rarely need more power than an OEM PSU gives...)
 
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