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Before I went on holiday (I will be writing about this sometime, honest) the hard drives in (Sephiroth) my desktop machine decided to die on me, possibly because they were not getting enough power due to be installing a big-ass graphics card (I wanted dual monitor).

So now I am back it is time to take a look at fixing it. I remember my motherboard manual saying it supported SATA and I remember the motherboard coming with official MSI SATA cables (because they were a bright shade of orange). So I go out and get myself a SATA drive and then I try to install my new drive. There’s one big problem however, despite the manual saying it has SATA and despite the included SATA cables there is no actual SATA connector on the motherboard. Why include SATA cables with a mobo without SATA connectors? WTF?