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Lesson 7: Data cable installation - Build a PC

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Overview

In lesson 7 we'll continue our steps to build a PC by connecting the data cables to the hard drives, CD/DVD drives and floppy drive. 

We're going to install 3 Serial ATA data cables, 2 for the SATA hard drives and 1 for the SATA DVD recordable drive.

If you're installing an IDE hard drive or IDE DVD drive please go to www.homepcbuilder.com/ide for instructions on connecting the cables.

Selecting the Data cables

The motherboard came with 6 SATA cables.  3 of which have a right angle connector on one end.

The connectors are keyed so they can only go in one way.

If you are installing a SATA III drive make sure you use a cable that comes labeled SATA III.  While the connections are the same as SATA II, SATA III cables are made to higher tolerances to make sure they work at SATA III’s 6Gb/s speed.

We'll use 2 of the data cables with right angle connectors for the hard drives and a data cable with straight connectors for the DVD recordable drive.

Locating the SATA ports

4 of the 6 SATA ports on the motherboard are side facing, to avoid contact with extra long video cards.

We'll refer to the motherboard manual to identify the number of each connection.

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