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My Mini ITX Motherboard only has 4 SATA ports, so I have ordered some USB header to USB female converters. When they arrive I will have 4 USB 2.0' s inside my case. I know that USB 2.0 will not be nearly as fast as SATA, but that doesn't really matter. What I need is a way so that I can power the HDD's via my power supply and have a SATA to USB male converter for data only.
The only thing I have right now is 2 of these
which require 2 USB's per HDD, since the power is also drawn via USB. Does a SATA Data Female to USB Data Male adapter even exist? I haven' t been able to find them anywhere.
Rasmus Mathiesen
Posted 2015-05-27T14:19:50.447
Reputation: 333
How many HDDs do you need to connect? Is it prohibitive for you to sacrifice 2 USB ports per HDD? – Dmitry Grigoryev – 2015-05-27T15:09:07.903
Dmitry Grigoryev, 2 HDD' s, but I would also like to connect my Bluetooth adapter into it, so that would mean I am 1 port short. – Rasmus Mathiesen – 2015-05-27T16:25:15.397
Why not just buy a PCIe-1x SATA controller?
– Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 – 2015-05-27T16:35:55.550Well, some HDD would work while powered by a single USB port, especially if you don't go for the fastest ones. @Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 is right though, if you can get SATA directly it will be faster and more stable. – Dmitry Grigoryev – 2015-05-27T17:48:22.083
"Does a SATA Data Female to USB Data Male adapter even exist?" -- Yes. The adapter you have is meant only for a 2.5" drive, and not a 3.5" or 5.25" drive. I have a USB adapter for IDE and SATA drive interfaces (for data and control), and it requires an additional connection for powering the drive. – sawdust – 2015-05-28T07:24:45.307
@Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 I simply dosen' t have room for it, as I mentioned in my post, it is a Mini-ITX board, I simply dont have the space for it. – Rasmus Mathiesen – 2015-05-29T14:14:47.973
@Sawdust the HDD' s I want inside are 2.5" anyway, so the only thing I need is a cable that inserts in the HDD as a normal SATA DATA cabel, but end out in a USB. – Rasmus Mathiesen – 2015-05-29T14:16:36.443
"the HDD' s I want inside are 2.5" anyway" So what? 2.5", 3.5" and 5.25" SATA drives all use the same SATA interface connector. So the USB-to-IDEor-SATA adapter would still work in your situation, since it has no power connection.. Why do you resist a solution to your question? – sawdust – 2015-05-29T18:09:06.603