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Today’s kids don’t have to worry about turning off your PC before you can unplug your mouse or keyboard
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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.
And if you use molex you can start a fire in a survival situation
There seriously needs to be a cable Geneva convention for bs like this, it’s like the PC-building equivalent of the trench shotgun
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.