Does the power supply have connections for another hard drive? If I wanted to add a solid state drive, would I have to upgrade the power supply?
1528603
You don't need a new power supply, but you will need a 4 pin molex to SATA power cable adaptor. Currently there is a SATA power chain where the first is consumed by the top optical drive. The next one below has the right length for another optical drive, but my tower config has only the one. The third and final is consumed by the USM. This is the Universal Storage Module that allows a USM external drive (Seagate Backup Plus for example) to plug right in from the front (that huge indentation on the front of the tower). Otherwise, there is another lengthy power cable set that is separate and has single SATA power connection to the bottom hard drive. This cable group only has a 4 pin molex otherwise. There are nice drawers for two hard drives, so it just seems odd that this would have a 4 pin instead of another SATA that reaches. Actually, any 2.5" SATA drive will fit in that USM slot in front.
1528604
I just used the USM power cable for the SSD I installed. My last computer (HP Pavillion) had a similar slot for an external plug in hard drive, and I never used it. I figure I wouldn't use it on this computer either, so I just unplugged the power from the USM and plugged it into the SSD. Have had it like this for about 3 months with no problems. Hope that helps.
290693
I installed this on my grandson's computer with 350watt power supply. Only one hard drive and one dvd/cd drive. As long as you don't have a lot of power consuming additions you should be ok!
625195
yes but the power supply ate two of my hard drives and 2 usb sticks. I question the usb sticks but I plugged in a hard drive to the power supply which is hot swappable and it ate two of my hard drives.
1770296
Its just a power run. If your psu has enough wattage it'll be fine. Look at the 4 pin power connectors....they're all pigtailed (runs). Explorer sees drives depending on sata/ide...has nothing to do with power connections.
897451
Hello, I have two and have not had an issue. This is only switch connected between the Power Supply and Hard Drive. If anything these have actually help save selected drives from running unnecessarily when not need. I have 2 of these units that control 12 Hard Drives. No issues in 2 years.
2090202
No additional power to the card is needed as both esata and sata drives have separate power connectors. This is not a USB card.
1734347
It is included with the power supply only, you need to acquired the connections cables separately
1616944
it included a cable for connecting internal power to the card. Sorry, I didn't count the pins, but my tower uses the same old power connections as non-SATA internal drives.
1204125
Yes it does. With the cables they supply you would be able to run a 2.5" hdd or ssd since both of these run off of 5v DC which is available on board. If you want to run a 3.5" drive you would need extra power and cables.
1148400
to power the hard drive you need a 4 pin molex connector from the power supply. to connect it to the motherboard you're gonna need some kind of IDE to SATA adapter cable since this particular hard drive uses an older IDE connection
1833714
Sorry it took me a few days I had to find time to take mine apart and make sure. It does not have the connector on the motherboard. The pins to solder one on are there if you're handy with a soldering iron, but this should only be attempted if you have done this kind of thing before. A much easier, much safer way to add an SSD is to purchase an "Ultrabay hard drive" dock from e-bay ($20-25) and then you can swap out a hard drive or the extra graphics card when you need each one.
2158456
I need to correct my last post about the "Power" portion of this item. It actually DOES NOT provide power to the drives, but rather, the fan on this rack. However, sinc you will need the power supply anyway...it is THAT that you will get your power source from for the drives.
987497
This drive is USB powered - it actually features dual USB connections in case one is underpowered on your computer. There may also be an option to use a separate power supply but I have not tried that.
473268
Yes one is for power the other power/data. I am running the drive on the data cable only. It did not run from the HUB without both plugged in, so I plugged the data cable direct to my laptop and it works just fine without the power cable.
656308
I don't use it for connect hard drive, but the voltage and ampers maybe working with it,, so there are another solution for connect hardrive. for example SATA/PATA/IDE Drive to USB Adapter Converter
795281
my computer only had sata power connections I had to buy a splitter to fit the 4 prong eide type power plug it needed. I hope this helps
670592
I don't think it matters. From the PDF it looks like they're both sata connections. I think I picked the one that gave the hard drive the most room.