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Optical Bay Cable Adapter?

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echoout

macrumors 6502a
Original poster
Aug 15, 2007
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Austin, Texas
Here's one for you. I would like to use each of my 2009 MP optical bay cables for SSDs, but I also need a molex cable to run to my external PSU. The choices of splitters and other adapters seems limited since the cables in the optical bays are the one-piece variety, with cable and data combined.

Can any of you think of a way to use the 2 optical bay cables as they were intended but to also get a molex off of them? Am I missing/forgetting something? (I feel like I am)

Worst case I could just manually power on and off the external PSU.
 
echoout said:
Here's one for you. I would like to use each of my 2009 MP optical bay cables for SSDs, but I also need a molex cable to run to my external PSU. The choices of splitters and other adapters seems limited since the cables in the optical bays are the one-piece variety, with cable and data combined.

Can any of you think of a way to use the 2 optical bay cables as they were intended but to also get a molex off of them? Am I missing/forgetting something? (I feel like I am)

Worst case I could just manually power on and off the external PSU.
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Trace a cable back to the backplane board power connection and split there. Or disconnect the Data connector at the backplane board and replace with a separate SATA cable to the optical bay and split the power in the optical bay.
 
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