MitchRapp

My 2nd "looking for" of the day, wow!

So I have a couple of 2.5" sata enclosures and each one needs to be powered by a 2nd USB cable.

I'm wondering if there is a power adapter that plugs into the AC plugs at home instead of through USB

the port on the enclosure is the small round slot you'd see in just about any external drives, but usually the enclose itself comes with a usb power cable... i need one to plug into the slot in the wall !



Sorry if it's hard to understand but I don't know how else to explain...
Take a 2.5" hard drive enclose and look at the back. You see there's 2 ports, 1 for mini-USB to USB, the other is a small round hole ... for power!

BlueMak

Eh, I have never heard of an enclosure, or any other USB device, requiring a second USB for power. They either get the power from the USB cable connected to the PC/device, or they have their own dedicated power adapter.
So, are you sure they are meant to be powered by a secondary USB connection?
The whole, hole thing, screams that it isn't a USB connection that you require.

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[hobo]eclipse

sounds like you need an AC power adapter to plug into the wall outlet. There may be spec for voltage or amps needed around the small round port or on a sticker on the enclosure.

MitchRapp

ya I'm gonna swing by my local tech shop and get a 5V 2A adapter and call it a day
Similar to the ones used to charge Logitech MX mice...

And yeah most 2.5" enclosures with laptop sata drives in em require a 2nd cable to power it...
Some don't though, I have 3 80G portable drives (all SATA) and 2 of the 3 need power while the 3rd one somehow doesn't...

[hobo]eclipse

i love the WD passprt 250 gig i got, 1 usb cable, thats it!

prolly the best bet to get the AC adapter, but the power plug to usb would be cool for total portability, but are those made for anything other than charging things?

BlueMak

I didn't find strange that it requires a second cable for power. But that you asked for a second USB cable for power.

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The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm Sic semper tyrannis.

Tipstaff

It really depends on the controller each manufacturer uses. Sometimes you will see a dual head USB cable (2 separate heads, sometimes one having a pass-through type head.. Vantec uses such a cable, btw) to single mini, where the idea is to use the power from 2 USB ports to power the enclosure. In other cases you may see a USB to mini DC plug along with the standard USB to mini USB cable. Most times, however, this is only the case with cheap powered mini USB hubs.

Rather than trying to buy the required cable you could always make one.

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