mini 4 pin molex connector on r710

Hi,

Each SATA/Molex connector provides three 12v pins at 1.5 amps each, for a total of 4.5 amps. 12 volts, times 4.5 amps, equals 54 watts able to be provided by a SATA/Molex connector.

The official Dell optical cable is only using 2 of the 4 pins. One red and one black. Red is typically 5 V. If that one red cable was carrying the amperage intended for 3 wires, it seems a little on thin side. Do you possible have access to any internal documents that give values for the other 2 pins on the 4 pin connector. 

Hello I'm afraid we don't have anything at this point- this is rather dated model, R710. Sorry I couldn't be of help this time.

So you are telling me that a multi-billion dollar company has disposed of engineering documentation form one their best selling enterprise products because they needed to save literally a few MB of storage on one of their several PB server clusters, just because it was a few years old? Anyone that has ever worked in a real job would call on that claim without having give it a second thought.

There is a very good reason that I was asking for this information and I'm assuming someone has put this together. This information can provide a non-conventional upgrade path to an existing product to repurpose a server that people can get for very cheap into a solidly preforming consumer product. This information would in all likelihood not decrease existing sales of the business sales and would potentially delay the eventual e-waste problem that their corporation has provided by their manufacture of the product in the first place. If a 10 minute lookup on a computer is now worth that to a corporation, there are huge problems with the society that we are living in. 

No matter, I own the server and a multimeter and I can easily do the research myself. Was hoping to save 30 minutes of time and get an answer.

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