Hey Jow Forums, can you help me? Found a stack of hard-drives just dumped in my local park, been trying to access them but it's slow going.
I bought a SATA-USB3.0 cable to access them, but apparently they need power as well, 3 of them have 8-prong sockets, the others have 4-prong sockets, how can I supply power to them without shoving them in a computer?
pic related, two HDD and the sata cable
Here's the 4 prongs
and the 8-prongs
I had an old external hard drive enclosure I tore apart and use for this purpose
your best bet is throwing them in a PC though
what the fuck did you buy there, ignore the "prongs" the one on the far right. your power is the big one on the left and the small one in the is the actual sata plug, you can buy internal hdd adapters on amazon they are like 15 burgers
>best bet is throwing them in a PC though
all I've got right now is a laptop, is there any mains power cable I can use or something?
Just buy the correct cables you stupid cunt.
Fuck me lad, that's the problem! Which cable is it?
no, buy a dock instead
KILL YOURSELF, RETARD
The left most socket is the SATA power cable, the smaller one to the right of it is the SATA data port, that's all you need.
Everything to the right of those are typically jumpers that you can ignore.
Power over USB might not be enough for some drives you might need to install them in a PC, it's like a 2 minute job, often you can pull an old PC apart and borrow cables from the optical drive.
Those are jumpers. Just ignore them, you don't need to worry about it. Find a SATA to USB adapter or, better yet, a dock as suggested here ()
>you might need to install them in a PC
Cheers lad, how do I do that? As far as I can tell my laptop doesn't recognise the drive nor power it up when it's connected
>Power over USB might not be enough for some drives you might need to install them in a PC
I use a power adapter with a molex connector and a molex to SATA power adapter. A set with the power adapter, the SATA data/PATA/IDE to USB adapter and cables was only $20 AUD on ebay.
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If the cable is like this then it should work
It needs to be formatted to be visible on the pc. Use gparted to view the disk.
You just need a PC with an optical drive in it, turn it off, unscrew the side, take the SATA power and SATA data cables out the back of the optical drive and plug them into the HDD and boot up.
Enter BIOS as the PC boots with typically the del key or F2 key, or whatever it says on screen on boot, and in BIOS you'll be able to check connected devices to see if it's recognized, if it's not then the drive is dead.
If it's recognized, boot up the PC and if you're in windows then open up computer management tool from the start menu, and select the disk management tool, and you'll be able to check it for partitions and see what it's formatted as, etc.
If these were discarded they're almost certainly dead.
I guess you want the long explanation.
Your cable doesnt work because USB3 can get enough juice to power up a desktop harddrive, typically those consume 20-25 watts
On the other hand a laptop drive or an SSD consume 5 watts or less which can be served by the USB 3
I'm not sure if this will be able to power the larger HDDs.
It's easier to just use gparted in GNU/Linux. As stated above.
There are cables as the one you own but with an alimentation. This one for example : amazon.com
It powers it for me
You have access to two of the most powerful tools mankind has ever created, get you choose to post on a Mongolian basket weaving forum to find answers. Fucking tard.
Most people don't have linux PCs laying around, it's easier to just grab a home desktop PC or a work desktop PC and put the drive in, there's loads of other command line tools in windows for checking partitions and whatnot but we're talking about someone with not a lot of computer experience it'll be easier for them with a simple GUI.
>Most people don't have linux PCs laying around
Most people here use it on all of our machines.
>there's loads of other command line tools in windows for checking partitions and whatnot but we're talking about someone with not a lot of computer experience it'll be easier for them with a simple GUI.
Windows has very poor file system support. I wouldn't want to use it to check hard drives.
Yes your right, this is what I need but it doesn't ship to Aus, I'll see if I can find it on ebay
Put sysrescd linux or what other linux live you are familiar with on a cheap small USB stick and boot that.
Check the orico docks / plugs on aliexpress. Most of them come with psu or can be powered.
a-..are those poop stain on your hard drives?
Probably dirt, I found them next to a tree near my house
Typically desktop hdd consume 5-8w or so, maybe 12w peak (spinup).
It's partly at 12v and you are not dealing wuth quick charging tech there, so it still wont work without external power.
>Probably
All of this just so OP can get a chance to get either cheese pizza or dolphin porn in his gayming PC.
