hi !
I just wanted to do a quick post in order for other to not replicate what i just did…
if you have a modular PSU, don’t plug your sata power blindly. I couldn’t see the pin so i wacked it at the PSU until it fit … it did fit … in the PCI connector >.<
12V in the 5v or 3.3v, the 2 intel ssh and my poor WD Velociraptor didn’t liked it 
Magic smoke everywhere…
Welp, that’s it i guess 
Edit: i am buying a donor board for my Velociraptor, and i took a picture of the fried board for posterity 
The platters would still be alright, no? If the drive had something vital, you could take it to a data recover place and they could attempt to swap the platters. 
already asked for quote, the data is not vital but nice to have (my old windows is on it)
But i loved that thing, a blast for the past >< i need to find another one from ebay
Moral of the story - be careful where you stick your things people…
Sorry to hear that. I can relate to loving old tech, no matter almost all of mine is fairly modern. I think if you are lucky you may find great condition velocyraptors used…
uh, you should never have to smash stuff together with pc components.
i just tried to align pin that i couldn’t see, but i do remember someone saying that 6 pin sata was the same as 8-2 pin PCI 
One of the reasons why i personally don´t really see the point of fully modular psu´s.
Because you need the basic set of cables anyways…
But of course always think twice before doing things…
Mostly because of customs length cable for me. But i actually never use any 
Just… Ugh, they are all keyed so you can’t plug them in wrong like you really have to try.
Sadly no, on my corsair psu, the 6 pin fot the sata is keyed identically than the first 6 of the 8 pin pci only the label can help you, so it took no effort to plug in the wrong one
I like them for smaller and good cable management build purposes. If your as meticulous as me then you won’t have a problem building a system.
Also they are extremely well labeled usually…
That’s just ridiculous! Fuck corsair.
I’ve had “magic” smoke everywhere, but not because I did something wrong, well I did, but the thing is I did not check how much power computer would receive from my home. Little did I know, the el socket that was the closest one to my build, was damaged and was giving out way more electricity than it should’ve. Burned everything after a few minutes I plugged it in 
A friend had a similar problem. PSU died so he bought another. The old cables fitted by the wiring was different and he fried two HDDs.
Arrr, why isn’t there any standard on modular psu !
I hope he didnt lost to much.
For me i won’t recover the data. I requested quote from 2 company, both are around 700€. My data was ‘nice to have’ but not critical.
Had something similar happen the other day at work. RMA department came looking for a sata cable because they got a psu that was missing one, I gave them what i thought was for the correct model… It wasn’t… There was a custom daughter board in that system that went up in smoke I just wiped my hands and said “should have checked with a multimeter first”
Moral of the story. Nou
Wha…? How?
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