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Just an observation
We have three Gateway computers, two bought in 2005, another one in
2007. All three of these machines have SATA capabilities on the motherboards and the hard drives are SATA but the DVD drives are IDE. None of the power supplies had more than the two SATA plugs. Things were starting to fail on one of the machines so we bought one of those ZT machines from Costco. The MSI motherboard has 5 SATA slots, but again the power supply has two lousy SATA connectors which were already taken up with the SATA hard drive and the SATA DVD-RW drives. Why do they build machines like this? A power supply isn't that expensive. You can buy a Cool Master power supply with five SATA connectors for $39 from Newegg. This is especially frustrating because it is almost impossible to find IDE DVD drives now. Since I prefer having two DVD drives on my machines (easier to copy disks with two) I had to buy a SATA to IDE adapter to put a 2nd DVD drive in this brand new machine. Adding a 2nd CD/DVD drive used to be a no-brainer easy upgrade, it would still be if they would stop putting power supplies in them that didn't match the SATA capabilities of the motherboards. |
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Just an observation
"Annie Woughman" wrote in message ... We have three Gateway computers, two bought in 2005, another one in 2007. All three of these machines have SATA capabilities on the motherboards and the hard drives are SATA but the DVD drives are IDE. None of the power supplies had more than the two SATA plugs. Things were starting to fail on one of the machines so we bought one of those ZT machines from Costco. The MSI motherboard has 5 SATA slots, but again the power supply has two lousy SATA connectors which were already taken up with the SATA hard drive and the SATA DVD-RW drives. Why do they build machines like this? A power supply isn't that expensive. You can buy a Cool Master power supply with five SATA connectors for $39 from Newegg. This is especially frustrating because it is almost impossible to find IDE DVD drives now. Since I prefer having two DVD drives on my machines (easier to copy disks with two) I had to buy a SATA to IDE adapter to put a 2nd DVD drive in this brand new machine. Adding a 2nd CD/DVD drive used to be a no-brainer easy upgrade, it would still be if they would stop putting power supplies in them that didn't match the SATA capabilities of the motherboards. You could have used something like this for power, if there are enough data connectors on the motherboard: http://www.google.com/products/catal...d=0CCsQ8gIwAA# or http://www.google.com/products/catal...d=0CDEQ8wIwAg# -- SC Tom |
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Just an observation
"SC Tom" wrote in message ... "Annie Woughman" wrote in message ... We have three Gateway computers, two bought in 2005, another one in 2007. All three of these machines have SATA capabilities on the motherboards and the hard drives are SATA but the DVD drives are IDE. None of the power supplies had more than the two SATA plugs. Things were starting to fail on one of the machines so we bought one of those ZT machines from Costco. The MSI motherboard has 5 SATA slots, but again the power supply has two lousy SATA connectors which were already taken up with the SATA hard drive and the SATA DVD-RW drives. Why do they build machines like this? A power supply isn't that expensive. You can buy a Cool Master power supply with five SATA connectors for $39 from Newegg. This is especially frustrating because it is almost impossible to find IDE DVD drives now. Since I prefer having two DVD drives on my machines (easier to copy disks with two) I had to buy a SATA to IDE adapter to put a 2nd DVD drive in this brand new machine. Adding a 2nd CD/DVD drive used to be a no-brainer easy upgrade, it would still be if they would stop putting power supplies in them that didn't match the SATA capabilities of the motherboards. You could have used something like this for power, if there are enough data connectors on the motherboard: I realize there are workarounds, I just don't understand why they are still putting the old type power supplies in the newer computers. |
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"Annie Woughman" wrote in message ... "SC Tom" wrote in message ... "Annie Woughman" wrote in message ... We have three Gateway computers, two bought in 2005, another one in 2007. All three of these machines have SATA capabilities on the motherboards and the hard drives are SATA but the DVD drives are IDE. None of the power supplies had more than the two SATA plugs. Things were starting to fail on one of the machines so we bought one of those ZT machines from Costco. The MSI motherboard has 5 SATA slots, but again the power supply has two lousy SATA connectors which were already taken up with the SATA hard drive and the SATA DVD-RW drives. Why do they build machines like this? A power supply isn't that expensive. You can buy a Cool Master power supply with five SATA connectors for $39 from Newegg. This is especially frustrating because it is almost impossible to find IDE DVD drives now. Since I prefer having two DVD drives on my machines (easier to copy disks with two) I had to buy a SATA to IDE adapter to put a 2nd DVD drive in this brand new machine. Adding a 2nd CD/DVD drive used to be a no-brainer easy upgrade, it would still be if they would stop putting power supplies in them that didn't match the SATA capabilities of the motherboards. You could have used something like this for power, if there are enough data connectors on the motherboard: I realize there are workarounds, I just don't understand why they are still putting the old type power supplies in the newer computers. $$$$$$$. Everyone is trying to save them, even if it impacts the customer. Doesn't make it right, but that's just the way it is. -- SC Tom |
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