Advantage: No additional power supply is required as power is provided via the SATA pin 8 connector. To use this application, a motherboard with SATA pin 8 connector is needed. The SATA pin 8 connector on the motherboard is of yellow colour. If no SATA pin 8 connector is available, this module can also be used via the standard SATA connector. For this purpose, the power supply is provided via the 3 pin power connector.
Here you find a overview of some Mainboards with Pin 8 power support Gigabyte MX31-BS0 Gigabyte MC20-S10 Gigabyte MB10-DS0 Gigabyte MB10-DS3 Gigabyte MB10-DS4 Supermicro X10 series Supermicro X11SSV-Q Supermicro X11SBA-F Supermicro X11SBA-LN4F Supermicro X10SDV series