e-SATA enclosure
All right, ladies and gents -
Gigabyte has these awesome e-SATA brackets that come with their boards, that look like so:
(Thanks, PC Stats!)
Anyway, I was looking at enclosures, and all of them use external power adapters, and I don't want that. I want to use the power mount you can see in the middle. As you can see, the cables come with the bracket, so I have the power connector and the e-SATA cable. All I want is an enclosure that will take my SATA power and SATA connection and feed it to the drive. Don't want power adapters under any circumstances.
Am I better off making my own enclosure, or has anybody seen anything like what I'm describing? Right now I've got a bare drive laying outside my case, which I don't particularly like, but is that the only purpose of the bracket, for temporary transfers using bare drives?
Thanks, everybody.
Gigabyte has these awesome e-SATA brackets that come with their boards, that look like so:
(Thanks, PC Stats!)
Anyway, I was looking at enclosures, and all of them use external power adapters, and I don't want that. I want to use the power mount you can see in the middle. As you can see, the cables come with the bracket, so I have the power connector and the e-SATA cable. All I want is an enclosure that will take my SATA power and SATA connection and feed it to the drive. Don't want power adapters under any circumstances.
Am I better off making my own enclosure, or has anybody seen anything like what I'm describing? Right now I've got a bare drive laying outside my case, which I don't particularly like, but is that the only purpose of the bracket, for temporary transfers using bare drives?
Thanks, everybody.
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Not to hijack your thread, but I was just curious as to why no power adapters?
I used to have a system with a slave/bare drive and just was really caring with it, making sure it had a sturdy place to sit. Never had a problem. Granted this was a 98SE machine with 3 drives and a constant open chassis for cooling that was more for backing up a main computer running Windows 2000. Blah blah blah and blah
It would be uber cool/geeky
The geek factor is definitely appealing to me, and it's sad that it's the first thing I thought of
The reason for no adapters is A) no extra cabling, B) no bulky block, C) make use of the connector I'm provided with, you know. I really want to just be able to go to the back of my computer and plug it in/unplug it in one simple location.
And right now I'm being like you. It's safe, it's in a stable place, it's doing fine, but if I ever want to move it, it doesn't stand a chance. That, and I don't really like open electronics.
That said, I'm fairly certain I'm never going to find a drive that exactly matches those criteria, so I'm thinking about buying one I like and modding the backplate and the circuitry, which is another thing I figured I'd check in with you guys on. Anybody know any tips on what I'm considering, any place that's a good resource for pinouts when I have to replace the connectors, even where to get the extenders I'm looking for since I'm not looking for bulk purchasing or anything?
Is this even a good idea? Haha, it sounds like fun to me, but it could just as easily be a hell of a pain and end up more expensive than it needs to be. Thoughts?
The only precaution I'd have with running a SATA hard drive unenclosed would be the risk of static electricity discharge. I've done that before with PATA drive running outside of the computer case. I reached for it and zapped it with a shock. That instantly caused all reading and writing to cease, and the drive was no longer seen by the OS, but a reboot brought everything back to normal.
The closest, and really the only, thing I can find is this:
(Thank you Newegg)
But as you can see, it does, in fact, use its own bracket and cabling. It's only $16 from Newegg, but it's sold out, and if I had to guess, isn't coming back. Guess I'll keep looking.