I recently purchased a Dell PowerVault 725n. It did not include any hard drives or caddys. I am looking at the interface that the hard drive uses and to be honest I have absoutly no idea wht kind of CABLE I need to connect it with. My research SAYS it uses IDE interface.

I also tracked down this link.

Any help is GREATLY appriciated. If it's a flat ribbon cable it is an IDE interface...
If it's a skinny usually red cable it is a SATA interface...

But the MBoard may have both options.Not SATA, not IDE. I'll see if I can get a photo.SCSI Perhaps ? ?Nope. Not SCSI.

This interface baffels me. I am thinking its an adapter to IDE cables.

(I'm a network admin for 3 small businesses, to eliminate all forms of "hes clueless")

I appriciate the help guys. Now to GO find the camera.Okay, Here is a pic of the BACKPLANE with the unidentified connectors:




Now that I look at it more it appears to be fibrechannel. Anyone want to confirm, I haven't worked with fibrechannel before.Hard to tell from that pick but those look to be SATA connectors...

That machine is a NAS server