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Worst PC hardware trends that disappeared (www.xda-developers.com)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

They also came from a time when hard drives could draw several amps while in use and much more on spin-up. There was a good reason why SCSI drive arrays used to spin each disk up one-by-one.

Molex connectors are good for 10 amps or so, SATA connectors couldn't have handled that amount of current.