PATA to SATA power adapter needed in Forest Hills NY ASAP
December 20, 2010 7:09 AM Subscribe
I need to a PATA power molex to SATA power adapter (like this) near Forest Hills NY ASAP.
I usually get things like this from MicroCenter in Westbury, but I'm in Queens and need one ASAP. I tried both the local Radio Shack and the local Best Buy and neither carry these. Help!
(If any of you are local and have on laying around, I'll gladly buy one off you.)
I usually get things like this from MicroCenter in Westbury, but I'm in Queens and need one ASAP. I tried both the local Radio Shack and the local Best Buy and neither carry these. Help!
(If any of you are local and have on laying around, I'll gladly buy one off you.)
Best answer: Depending on how much hackery will be allowed for this task, the desperation of the need, and the budget/resources available:
1) SATA power cables wire into the same 5v, ground and 12v wires as molex. If you have some way of getting the SATA power connector off of another PSU, you could splice a SATA connector onto one of the existing molex connector wires. This is a hatchet job, but it'll work, and void warranties.
2) Less hacky, not warranty-voiding, but not very elegant: If you have access to an ESATA bracket, you can pick up a ESATA enclosure for the drive, and it'll work as though it were an internal drive connected directly to the internal SATA port, because it effectively is.
3) This is more like putting out a match with a firehose, but you could replace (even if just temporarily) the PSU for one with more SATA connectors, until the suitable $1 part can be sourced.
posted by Rendus at 8:59 AM on December 20, 2010
1) SATA power cables wire into the same 5v, ground and 12v wires as molex. If you have some way of getting the SATA power connector off of another PSU, you could splice a SATA connector onto one of the existing molex connector wires. This is a hatchet job, but it'll work, and void warranties.
2) Less hacky, not warranty-voiding, but not very elegant: If you have access to an ESATA bracket, you can pick up a ESATA enclosure for the drive, and it'll work as though it were an internal drive connected directly to the internal SATA port, because it effectively is.
3) This is more like putting out a match with a firehose, but you could replace (even if just temporarily) the PSU for one with more SATA connectors, until the suitable $1 part can be sourced.
posted by Rendus at 8:59 AM on December 20, 2010
Response by poster: I've heard of Datavision, I was just hoping to avoid a trip into the city. Gatecom didn't have them.
I already tore open 3 external enclosures that I found hoping for a SATA connector so I could just split the stupid cables, but not luck.
I didn't have an ESATA bracket and no spare PSUs with the right molex.
So I managed to make it through the Bronx up to the Yonkers store and back in record time (about 45 minutes).
How on earth do we live in one of the biggest cities in the world and not have at least two places inside the city that sell these sorts of things?
Ah, well, thanks for your help guys (gals?), I award you both "best answer".
posted by Brian Puccio at 11:45 AM on December 20, 2010
I already tore open 3 external enclosures that I found hoping for a SATA connector so I could just split the stupid cables, but not luck.
I didn't have an ESATA bracket and no spare PSUs with the right molex.
So I managed to make it through the Bronx up to the Yonkers store and back in record time (about 45 minutes).
How on earth do we live in one of the biggest cities in the world and not have at least two places inside the city that sell these sorts of things?
Ah, well, thanks for your help guys (gals?), I award you both "best answer".
posted by Brian Puccio at 11:45 AM on December 20, 2010
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posted by Skorgu at 7:41 AM on December 20, 2010