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Adding Drives to 7820 - NO SATA Power
Trying to add 2 or more drives to a 2nd RAID in Precision 7820. ( ServiceTag: )
I have a Raid 10 4x2TB SSD Drives in the 4 bays.
I have 2 drives I'd like to setup as a RAID 1.
There's a Video on buying a bracket to inset in the 5.25" Drive Bay but it shows connecting the Fan power but NO SATA cables shown.
The Motherbord shows 8 SATA Data Ports, but NO SATA Power ports. How do I do this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR7Ns3433KA
I connected the additional RAID SATA Cables below to RAID card.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01B1IVEM2/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1
But I need 4 or at least 2 more SATA Power cables.
I tried to Use the GPU power cables and I purchased many adapter cables PCIe 6 Female to Female so I can use a PCI-e to SATA Power and no luck! I'm really stuck... Help please.
BTW if you're looking for a Part # for the 2 Drive expansion: 88PWP
and 2 Trays: 1B31P6100-600-G + (N701D)
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Posted June 4th, 2021 03:00
Please try to check "under" the psu, as area. There should be a sata power cable hidden there
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May 20th, 2024 19:21
@mazzinia_ thank you!!!
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Posted June 4th, 2021 10:00
Sounds Like you are missing the sata power splitters
https://www.amazon.com/Genuine-Dell-FOXCONN-SPLITTER-Desktop/dp/B00T74H5OE/
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Posted August 4th, 2024 23:54
Getting power from the PCI Express powers for the GPU was the easiest one.
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Posted December 11th, 2024 11:35
@mazzinia_ thanks! There's one.
Love the way this WS is designed..
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Posted June 3rd, 2021 22:00
I have been trying to do the same thing since Dell admitted that the Mega Raid board can not support a boot drive and RAID configured drives. They told me to buy the same kit and they sent me a SATA power splitter but after 2 weeks of trying to get help from Pro Support as to where to plug the power splitter in, I was told by Resolution Manager that I needed to find a local computer tech to do the change if I was capable.
I'm done with buying Dell computers.