Solved Install 2 ssd's on a system without the correct cables :(

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Please help me find appropriate cables to pigtail off my existing ones to install 2 ssd's in a single hdd bay,
The bracket for the two ssd's is easy enough or the use of Velcro
But the cables I'm not at all sure of for the psu which is built into the tinny psu
The motherboard I'm not sure if a splitter exists to use the same cable or would it connect directly to the motherboard and split from there ?
Thanks for any direct links to my needs Newegg/ Amazon.. Amazon is where I saw the dbl bracket for the ssd's,
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[essenbe]

Mike, the power splitter is no problem. Those are easy to come by. The problem is a splitter for the data cable. I have never seen one and don't know if you would want to use one. You would be running 2 SSDs from one port and performance would suffer a lot, I'm sure.

This is what you need for the power splitter StarTech PYO2SATA 6" SATA Power Y Splitter Cable - Newegg.com

Could you use something like this on your motherboard? Just an example StarTech Model PEXSATA22I PCI Express to SATA Card Add-On Card - Newegg.com

 

[pbcopter]

Are you wanting to connect two SSDs to a single controller port? If so, that is not possible.

 

[ThrashZone]

Interesting my old x-p was like that all it had was a loop going from one hdd to another hdd bay if added to it :/
Could of just been a power loop I'm not really sure ?

So what you basically saying if a mobo was compatible with multiple hdd or sdd's it would have another connection on the mobo ?

No more slots the video card takes up both I had to remove the cable t.v. card to fit it in.

 

[pbcopter]

For the data cable yes. As was said essenbe, you can use slitter cables for the power.

 

[ThrashZone]

Bummer,
Sounds like a more straight forward method would just to get a single power extension and mount both ssd's to out side of the case and manually switch back and forth
Data cable is plenty long enough to go outside the case :/
Thanks guys
Cheers.

 

[whs]

I would get one of these and stick one SSD into an eSata enclosure. There are more elaborate enclosures like this one, but they are a bit more money. I find those enclosures extremely practical. eSata is faster than USB3 but USB3 is also OK.

 

[ThrashZone]

Thank you,
No room for this,
2 Port eSATA PCI-E Host Adapte - Newegg.com
I only have two slots and my video card is taking up both of them
There used to be a cable t.v. dedicated slot which I believe is the same as the above would connect to but I had to remove it to fit the secondary vga port into,
This shows the cable card installed,
http://www.sevenforums.com/pc-custo...one-s-pc-build-suggestions-2.html#post2650641
But I do already have an enclosure with a special usb cable to do exactly what your suggesting

 

[whs]

If your USB is USB3, that would work well too. I run all my virtual systems from a 240GB SSD either from eSata or USB3. It's practically the same as from the internal disk - and I can run those from any system.

 

[ThrashZone]

I believe there is 1 usb3 port on the front of this machine,
And 1-2 I don't know what they are ?
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[whs]

USB3 would have a blue strip inside.

 

[ThrashZone]

Nope none,
I do have a esata on the back though
And on the external enclosure.

 

[whs]

That would be great. I love eSata. Try that.

 

[ThrashZone]

As much as I'm not crazy about mixing up 7 and 10 booting again :/
It either that or going hillbilly and strapping both ssd's on the outside of the case and manually switching back and forth
Not much of a chance win-10TP would mess up win-7 that way

 

[whs]

Why don't you run 10 in virtual from the eSata SSD - I do it that way.

 

[ThrashZone]

For one I'm not nearly as smart as you
I tried that copy system reserved to C thing it just did not work,
I never knew about the esata connection option but now I do and might do it seems like a more pliable option,
Bad thing it is my backup external case but was only about 10-15 bucks locally another won't break the bank

I need caveman instructions if you haven't noticed
http://www.amazon.com/Crucial-MX100...cs&ie=UTF8&qid=1416171699&sr=1-3&keywords=ssd

 

[whs]

For what would you like to have caveman instructions ??

 

[essenbe]

cavemen drew funky pictures on rocks.

 

[ThrashZone]

Everything
Wouldn't win-10 still screw with booting even if the 100mb partition wasn't there on 7 ?
And even if win-7 had the boot/ system on it wouldn't when installing win-10 do the same thing with 100mb partition
I guess I never really got to understand the bios stuff with out the partition being create
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1649-clean-install-windows-7-a.html

Warning
If you want to install Windows 7 using UEFI instead of BIOS, then see this below first.

How to Install Windows 7 Using "Unified Extensible Firmware Interface" (UEFI)

 

[whs]

Like this Steve.