Review on 💻 Benfei 3 Pack 15 Pin SATA Power Extension Cable - Male to Female Extender Adapter for Hard Drive Disk, HDD, SSD, PCIE - 8 inches Length by Scott Matute

Name: 💻 Benfei 3 Pack 15 Pin SATA Power Extension Cable - Male to Female Extender Adapter for Hard Drive Disk, HDD, SSD, PCIE - 8 inches Length
Item: 💻 Benfei 3 Pack 15 Pin SATA Power Extension Cable - Male to Female Extender Adapter for Hard Drive Disk, HDD, SSD, PCIE - 8 inches Length
Rating: 5

October 26, 2022

Works great to solve SATA power connector problem

There have been changes to the SATA power cable specification and some geniuses decided that they should take a regular VCC connector and ground it to put the drive into sleep mode . This disables this pin and allows the drive to remain active. Many people say this only affects corporate drives, but I haven't found this to be the case. Changing the power supply can also cause this behavior, so it's a big mess.

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