I bought an SATA hard drive off someone that appears to use a 15-pin connector. There does not appear to be any other connectors on the back. How does this thing get powered? I have another SATA hard drive that uses the regular 7-pin connector, and on the back, just like an IDE drive, it has a place to connect the power. This SATA hard drive though just has that big 15-pin connector in the back, and nothing else.
part of that connector is power, the other is data. look closely.
I believe that is the power connector. SATA data cables are 7-pin. SATA power cables are 15-pin. The old Molex cables are 4 pin. (Molex being what IDE drives use.) Some SATA drives have Molex ports on them for use with older powersupplies. (Just like some motherboards can use both 20 pin and 24 pin connectors.) If your powersupply doesn't have a SATA power cable, then you'll need to get a Molex-SATA power cable adapter. (See the Newegg link for one adapter.)
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