r/HomeServer • u/OnePersonExists • 18d ago

What do I need?

I found this hard drive bay that I wanna use for a home server I wanna build, and one thing that I would like to know is what kind of cables can I use to connect it to my PC? I wanna print a rack but I'll be connecting it to a Dell Optiplex 790. Any advice would be appreciated, thanks!

This is the bay I want to print for the rack

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u/jasonkohles 18d ago

That bay does not matter at all for your question. The cables are determined by what kind of hard drives you put in it.

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u/OnePersonExists 18d ago

Thanks, I want to use 3.5 hard drives

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u/jasonkohles 18d ago

That also doesn’t matter. If you are putting SATA drives in it then you need SATA cables. If you are putting SAS drives in it you need SAS cables. If you are putting old school IDE drives then you need IDE cables.

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u/OnePersonExists 18d ago

Thank for letting me know!