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Optiplex 5060 sff cables
Hello, I havea 5060 sff, removed optical drive and have 2 2.5 drive mounted on a caddy.
I have free sata ports on the motherboard, and was wondering wether I might put a third 2.5 drive in the optical drive space with an adapter.
My question is: is there a particular dell 6pin sata power cable I need to use to power all three of them? I don't currently have spare power cable, just two of them.
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Thank you, is this one okay?
I just opened the 5060 and noticed I get 4 groups of cable at the moment from the motherboard:
2 sata power cables
1 molex
1 optical drive power cable
I saw that the molex is used to attach to it a 2pin case fan.
If I use the one in the link I could manage to power the three 2.5 drives plus one for a sata->molex converted for the case fan.
Am I right? Do I have enough power?
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Posted June 30th, 2023 19:00
Hi @krisaore ,
Let me see if I have this right according to the wording in the first post. You want to install three 2.5" drives in the DVD drive bay. Max would be 2. What are using in the hard drive cage - HDD or SATA SSD and is it your boot drive, and/or is M.2 being used for boot?
I'm not 100% sure if the 200w PSU can power 3-4 (mainly 4) HDD's. SSD's are only 5v as compared to 12v for HDD's. So if you wanted to power 3-4 SSD's, I doubt that would be a problem.
Another option is go external with storage drive(s) by using docking station(s), especially if using HDD's. This could give you more storage capacity as compared to being limited to 3 SATA ports on the MB, and being possibly limited to onboard storage capacity. This is unless you wanted to add a SATA port PCIe expansion card.
Use the black or blue SATA ports for boot and/or storage SSD, use white SATA port for storage, like storage HDD. Dell has used different speeds for those ports. 6GB/s for black & blue and 3GB/s for white.
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Posted June 30th, 2023 19:00
Yes, SATA power cable that goes to DVD drive can power HDD.
By any chance are you thinking of installing 2 drives in the HDD cage? There's an adapter for that, but you already have 2 drives installed where slim DVD drive goes.
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Posted July 2nd, 2023 12:00
It won't catch on fire. A good PSU, like Dell's, will trip if overloaded.
According to the specs you gave, you're not running a GPU card. So I doubt the PSU will overload.


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Posted June 29th, 2023 22:00
Another option is to install a third 2.5” in optical disc drive caddy which has same form factor as a slim dvd. this way you do not need extra cables.