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I bought a molex to sata cable and I plugged it in to a back plate. Should I be worried and how to tell if it'd start burning? And obviously what to do then besides quickly turning the PC off?
pic related, but Chinese. Looks exactly the same as my Gigabyte one besides color of the metal inside the molex part (it looks darker? copper like). Besides I did check how pins pair and each molex pin is 3 sata pins and molex part has 3 left over pins that don't connect to anything.
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>>62036845
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TataDaUNEFc
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>3out of 4 molex pin not used
What
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>>62036862
Obviously that's what I did watch. I'm using the gigabyte one (from the picture). The Chinese counterpart I'm worried about looks almost exactly the same as I did describe in the OP.
>>62036904
It's opposite, 3 out of 15 ones on the sata end don't seem to be connected to any molex. pin.
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>>62036845
Well how much current are you pulling through it? If the thing works at all (they usually do, I've only had one cheap chink cable fail to proceed) then the only danger is putting too heavy a load on it. If you're just running one disk drive or fan off the thing this will be pretty much impossible to do.
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>>62036943
I use it for an old and thick 3.5" HDD. I turn it off for night, but I might use it for a whole day once in a while. Now It's running @ 40*C according to hwinfo.
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Bump, just to make sure my computer won't burn.
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>>62036935
So you're able to look that up but still too stupid to realize "Put it in my PC and wait for it to catch on fire" is a stupid idea.
Highly suggest you off yourself, dipshit.
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