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    Powering an Optical Drive using USB?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by borkey, Mar 14, 2010.

  1. borkey

    borkey Notebook Geek

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    Does anyone know if this would work?

    I'm planning to pull out the 12.5mm Optical Drive from a laptop, and stick an HDD in its place. This much I know is possible, from another thread in this forum.

    However, if I spliced a Type A USB Port onto the other end of a 15 pin SATA Power cable, would this provide enough power to run the Optical drive that I pulled out? SATA-ESATA cables are easy enough to find, so I'm not worried about the data side of things.
     
    borkey, Mar 14, 2010
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