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Old 12-04-2002, 04:36 PM   #7
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Originally posted by Early Q
Probably because it shares the power between the two items and HDD needs a fair chunk of power.

But I'm just guessing.
You're right...the hard drive draws a lot of power at boot up and you don't want any kind of power flux to interfere with that process. It's good practice to keep the main boot hard drive by itself on it's own power cable.

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