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Newer page: | version 3 | Last edited on Thursday, September 18, 2003 9:44:57 pm | by CraigBox | Revert |
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Berg Connectors are those white nylon power plugs/sockets that provide power to your hard drives, cdrom drives, floppy drives, and other PC components needing power.
-Sometimes expansion cards need more power than the bus can provide. For example, [firewire]
cards and [SATA] host adapters need to be able to power the external drive or unit, and taking large currents off the bus can cause system instability.
+Sometimes expansion cards need more power than the bus can provide. For example, FireWire
cards and [SATA] host adapters need to be able to power the external drive or unit, and taking large currents off the bus can cause system instability.
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+''I thought they were called Molex connectors? -- CraigBox''
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+And this page says I'm right: [Molex disk drive power connectors| http://www.molex.com/cgi-bin/bv/molex/home_init.jsp?x=y&BV_SessionID=@@@@1617620051.1063876816@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccfadcjgkhkgemcflgcehedffgdfmk.&langPref=english&sNav=/cgi-bin/bv/molex/nav/mxleft_nav.jsp%3FBV_SessionID%3D%40%40%40%401617620051.1063876816%40%40%40%40%26BV_EngineID%3Dcccfadcjgkhkgemcflgcehedffgdfmk.%26channel%3DProducts%26familyOID%3D-8470%26chanName%3Dfamily%26frellink%3DIntroduction&mCnt=/cgi-bin/bv/molex/family/intro.jsp%3FBV_SessionID%3D%40%40%40%401617620051.1063876816%40%40%40%40%26BV_EngineID%3Dcccfadcjgkhkgemcflgcehedffgdfmk.%26familyOID%3D-8470%26superFamOID%3D-8798%26pageTitle%3DIntroduction]