now that 3.5mm plug is finally dying, when is this massive piece of shit finally gonna die? I can't even count the number of times I cut myself on this shit because they're impossible to unplug.
it seems that SATA power connectors are taking over... GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE!
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What the fuck even is that? I've never seen it outside Jow Forums
it's an ancient connector that power supply merchants still force us to use.
it's a massive piece of shit.
Never happened to me a single time. Also OP is underage. Those plugs are a sacred computing tradition. Countless generations of disk drives have been powered by them, so please show respect where it's due.
Molex 4 pin. It's not necessary to use and you aren't forced to use it.
It can be used with adapters for 6 or 8 pin, fans (if your mobo fan header broke or you ran out of them)
We will likely never stop seeing this. Even my evga 750w came detachable molex.
If you all hate this so much then disconnect them from your modular power supply. You do have a modular psu... right?
works fine
cheap
easy to work with if you're not a retard
this is what peak power supplying looks like
It's not THAT hard to take out, you were probably being lazy and not moving things around to get better leverage on it.
Also, go work out manlet.
There are just so many useful periphials that can be connected to molex with the right adapter.
I cannot COUNT the number of times i've had one or two sata connectors on a PSU go bad, or just ran out of them and had my ass saved by molex to sata.
Cannot count how many builds i've had where the mobo was some weird shit and the fan header was way too far away to plug the exhaust fan in so I just used molex instead.
Used molex to power 1070s, 1050s, all sorts of weird shit.
OP is an angry underaged manlet with a woman's grip.
do you also cut yourself when you're opening a bottle of so ylent?
>now that 3.5mm plug is finally dying
no it isn't
> I can't even count the number of times I cut myself on this shit because they're impossible to unplug.
Know why I know Söylent takes up most of your "diet"?
Who do you think is wrong with this connector? I never had any problems with it at all.
A SATA power connector broke once for me when I plugged it into a hard drive, but that's about it.
>It's not THAT hard to take out
It isn't that it is hard to unplug, it's that it is impossible to unplug without feeling like you are going to break either the cable or the device.
They feel very flimsy and the individual wires wiggle around too much for me to be comfortable working with them, it always feels like it is one second away from breaking.
>Buying shitty PSUs with no easy push to release plugs.
^This. Think about the countless millions of PCs powered with them. Think all the porn downloaded, all the games of Quake, all the company payrolls done on machines powered off M4 plugs.
Hardware and OSes may change with the times. We may go from EGA to VGA to SVGA to nVidia 3D cards, we may go from ESDI to IDE to SATA hard disks, we may go from 720k floppies to 4G USB sticks, we may see companies rise and fall, we may go from DOS 3.x to Windows 10, from 40MB to 10TB hard disks, but no matter the year or the seasons, the humble M4 is always there to provide your hard disk with power. :^)
>works fine
others work better
>cheap
everyone would be willing to pay 1/2 a cent to get a better connector. SATA power connectors are already as cheap.
>easy to work with if you're not a retard
bullshit. they're hard to connect and impossible to disconnect.
git gud
>MUH TRADITION
go to bed gramps and take that ovaltine as you listen to some easy listening music on your shortwave radio.
>cheap
They come with most any PSU it's hardly an option.
They have a solution for your problem it's called cable mod cables, they can be custom tailored to have only the connectors you want, in the custom length you want, with the colors you want.
Just because you don't like molex doesn't me the other dude with his RGB strips, D5 pump and fan controllers don't want his molex.
If we had to listen to this retard, we'd still have 386 PCs with bleeper sound and shit CRTs.
Oy vey! Goyim, M4 is antisemite! You better stop using it and start buying them $15 adapters asap!*
*Only 80+ nickel edition and certified by logitech, nvidia and intel, of course!
Not him but I have plenty of strength, the fear with molex is that if I use too much of it I will smash my hand into the other - razor sharp - size of the PC case and splash blood all over my precious electronics.
I've done that a few times in my life, I used to work in server rooms.
Quality cases have rounded edges so you don't get cut by random shit.
Sure, but me employers back in the day would not buy "quality cases" for their servers, they would buy the cheapest shit available to spend more on the electronic parts.
I swear to god, several times I found myself filing down edges on servers just to avoid being cut one more time.
>I can't even count the number of times I cut myself on this shit
that's possible?
molex has to go though, the cheap pin always fall out, sort of like how your spaghetti falls out of your fanny pack all the time
i have this thing
using it with connector to power up my sata dvd drive
it just werks
Just wear gloves, that's what I do. It also beats having to keep washing my hands as they get caked with dust.
Yeah, I should have come up with that 8 years ago when I still worked in server rooms.
Nowadays I have a cushy remote job as a devops making almost 6 figures working form home while taking 30min Dark Souls & Beer breaks every hour.
>3.5mm dying
underage opinion
You sound like generic applel user.
these literally are more impossible
let me guess
You're one of those retards that tugs on the wires to disconnect them rather than the connector itself
Because thats certainly what it sounds like
How fat are you now? JK im jelly if true.
What pleb tier shit do you use? At worst some case fans many use them but only lower quality brands use them. Everything in my system is either powered by SATA connectors or mobo fan headers.
I never had a problem connecting or disconnecting them. You must have weak fingers. Also SATA connectors break way more often in my experience, on the drive side, which is a bitch to fix.
I would be if I didn't go running every other day. I usually run 6 km, sometimes if the weather is not too hot I do 12 km. If I didn't do this I'd probably be a landwhale, but I'm in pretty good shape.
I also go wall climbing with friends sometimes.
>push clip
>it breaks
>push clip on other side
>it gets stuck in the slot harder now
wew
>I can't even count the number of times I cut myself on this shit because they're impossible to unplug.
hahahah S O Y B O Y
>when is this massive piece of shit finally gonna die?
That's still alive?
SATA is even a thing today?
Yeah they're pretty awful, especially if you get some cheaply made ones like I have in my case. I had to shove the pins in one at a time because they fell out of the back of the connector
I've made this so many years ago got Jow Forums.
I call this piece: "Ata Origami And Molex Ikebana".
>I can't even count the number of times I cut myself on this shit because they're impossible to unplug.
P E A K
S O Y
Impossible too unplug without wrecking your shit. The point is you have to be very moderate in your power output, otherwise you just smash your hand into the other side of the case or some electronics.
I agree with your statement, but satania is a dumb slut.
just wiggle it around while tryiing to unplug it instead of pulling on it like a retard
>cable pull! case smash!
are you autistic? might explain your difficulties in regulating your strength
no
>do you know that fucking connector that's been working for 6 gorillion years without breaking and does the job at the minimum cost?
>Let's change that because I got bored of it.
I agree with OP. They're awful
say what you will, but i've seen way less broken molex connectors/plugs than sata ones
the only thing i've had is pushing out the pins, which you just be pushed back in
I haven't had to deal with these connectors for years. Buy a modular power supply and high quality components and you won't have anything that uses it
Chad molex VS virgin pcie
>Let's change that because I am a bitchy faggot.
fixed
What I don't get is why the sata power connector has more connections than the data one... wtf?
3.5mm aren't dying bro. It will continue to endure in the audiophile/professional audio market.
4-Pin molex isn't going away either due to some peripherals needing 5V. These days, it is mainly low-RPM fans and fan controllers.
Never had a problem with them. You are just extremely clumsy and weak if you have issues with them.
For wiring tidying, nlyon ties are your friend.
>tfw you only use laptops and haven't seen one of those plugs in well over a decade
>4-Pin molex isn't going away either due to some peripherals needing 5V
Pretty sure SATA power connectors also provide 5V. They even have pins for 3.3V, but I think those aren't always used since drives don't seem to need it.
SATA media use mostly 12V and 3.3V. 5V is a hold-over from the PATA to SATA transition period.
T. S()ib() i
>OP regularly struggles and often cuts themselves plugging in and removing PC power connectors
The absolute state of GenZ
Remember this one, kids.
op is be
what the fuck?
if you have one of those, take it out of your computer RIGHT AWAY!
Stop being weak.
been using those for years, stop buying chinkshit
>sata connector fucked
>AMP/molex is bad
>REEEEEEE
>stop buying chinkshit
the one you have is chinkshit you retard. enjoy that housefire!
Next for sure are CDs-DVDs
>inb4 they are already dying
Indeed you're right but laptop's manufacturers still put a cd-dvd rw on them. Just the expensive one doesn't have it. Also most car stereo have it even nowadays
See the last connector in this pic ? It's the same as the one the guy in the video says is OK.
None of them are good.
>3.5mm plug dying
Stopped reading right there. You're a retard.
I use one of these, never had a problem for over 2 years.
your ancestors killed animals with tools they made from things around them, and you can't unplug a connector specifically designed to be unplugged
molex, hello young newfag.
>OP and anyone complaining here has never had issues with the early sata plugs
>just dropping out
of their connectors.
>I can't even count the number of times I cut myself on this shit because they're impossible to unplug.
How do you cut yourself on a molex connector? I honestly can't imagine how. What sharp edge is there that you might cut yourself on?
I think he's talking about the flanged rim. Honestly if OP's putting that much effort into pulling them apart then he probably doesn't deserve this. Acquired from muh engineer grandad
>when pulling apart sleeve assemblies ALWAYS "pull" on the internal part not the outer or external part.
Seems like a design flaw that the Makers of Molex put the flange on the external fitting...
SATA is great for almost every application, but only supplies a fraction of the amperage of a molex connection, you underage retard.
A lot of the really lowest budget chinky ones are just awful plastic. The leads are loose in the connector and sometimes they just aren't aligned well enough to plug in and shit. Theyre really not meant for casual disconnection though. Even the cheap shits stay connected forever. Sata connectors are brittle as shit, even the connecting surfaces. Way too much leverage on that shit, too.
mine still do that lol.
i only have 1 hard drive and its still fucky lol
this, shit's too thin and weak for the kind of wire it's expected to be used with
There's absolutely nothing inside of my PC that uses the Molex connector. NOTHING. It's fucking useless.
3.5mm isnt being removed from motherboards or cases soon you fucking autist
As someone who still uses an IDE HDD and not enough fan connectors on my motherboard, its useful to me.
How do people cut themselves on these?
>As someone who still uses an IDE HDD
>93GB disk
LOL'd. Why the fuck do you still use a 10+ year old HDD???? It probably has tons of bitrot already. You should have moved to something new like 6 years ago.
>How do people cut themselves on these?
very sharp edges. horrible tolerances on pins and receptacles so everything has to be pushed really hard to make a contact... which means when you want to disconnect it, it's next to impossible since the connectors themselves tend to pull out with the plug.
it's a shitshow all around.
see hope your house is insured.
I'm legit impressed that guy's HDD isn't dead. Good show. I've thrown all my old disks into enclosures and I think all the IDE ones are rip'd.
his computer is even older. I wonder from what 3rd world shithole he's from...
>I'm legit impressed that guy's HDD isn't dead
It actually dies sometimes (no damage to data as far as I'm aware), strangely enough I just have to reconnect the molex and it works again.
I'm just waiting until this thing kicks the bucket before I upgrade but it has a serious will to live.
Is the US considered a shithole now?
This is kind of horrifying. I can't look away.
3.5 is great, molex is fineish, but pic related, pic related shouldn't even exist.
>Is the US considered a shithole now?
yes.
> 4GB Ram
> Winblowz
Slit your wrists.
Its not that bad.
Linux isn't any better. I tried. This thing runs better on Windows.