Drives, General installation guidelines, Connecting drive cables – Dell OptiPlex 745 User Manual

Page 96: Drive interface connectors

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Drives

Dell™ OptiPlex™ 745 User's Guide

  

General Installation Guidelines

  

Hard Drive

  

Drive-Panel Inserts

  

Floppy Drive and Media Card Reader

  

Optical Drive


Your computer supports:

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Two SATA (Serial ATA) hard drives

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One floppy drive or Media Card Reader

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Two SATA optical drives

 

General Installation Guidelines

Connect SATA hard drives to the connectors labeled "SATA0" or "SATA1." Connect SATA optical drives to SATA connectors on the system board (see

System

Board Components

).

 

Connecting Drive Cables

When you install a drive, you connect two cables—a DC power cable and a data cable—to the back of the drive.

 

Drive Interface Connectors

NOTE:

Due to the limited number of drive bays and controllers on this computer, you will not be able to connect all supported devices at once.

1 optical drive

2 floppy drive

3 hard drive

 

SATA Connector

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