If you plug in the wrong one of these, you can kill any drives attached.
EDIT: Ask me how I know. Seriously, the plugs on each end should define the pin-outs. If it fits, it should not be possible for it to destroy anything, fail gracefully at most. That used to be one of the major reasons for different plug types.
I can’t find it now but there’s a reddit thread of someone who fried his Volta era enterprise GPU because dell shipped him the wrong cable that was incorrectly labeled as a Dell riser cable and not EPS (12v pins are flipped), so it burnt a hole though the card lol.
If you plug in the wrong one of these, you can kill any drives attached.
EDIT: Ask me how I know. Seriously, the plugs on each end should define the pin-outs. If it fits, it should not be possible for it to destroy anything, fail gracefully at most. That used to be one of the major reasons for different plug types.
I can’t find it now but there’s a reddit thread of someone who fried his Volta era enterprise GPU because dell shipped him the wrong cable that was incorrectly labeled as a Dell riser cable and not EPS (12v pins are flipped), so it burnt a hole though the card lol.
There seriously needs to be a cable Geneva convention for bs like this, it’s like the PC-building equivalent of the trench shotgun