Connect Sata Power Before Turning On Pc

Installed in my pc like a breeze. Just remember to snag a sata III power cable separately since these don’t come with one!

The price is amazing, speed is incredible in either RAID 1 or 0, and have not had a reliability issue in either of my two units. And honestly, these things look incredible as well. Being able to dump footage during shoots in RAID 1 and then switch to RAID 0 when you have to edit on the road is awesome. Having all the Mac and PC I/O is great too. I hate when everything has only Firewire 800 or Thunderbolt, but these have my e-SATA so my PC can be happy. 7200rpm drives at the sizes they have in these units pretty much guarantees that they are WD drives, which is a good thing. Not a big Seagate fan, if only for the customer service. If you need a truly portable RAID 1 drive for backups or a RAID 0 for editing HD on the road, this is what you want without paying crazy prices. I use one of those cell-phone charger power packs to power the unit while running e-SATA and I don't even need a plug for backing up or editing. Schweet!

I use the cable to connect the SSHD drive to my computer -- power and data. I hadn't connected any SATA drives before so I had to look at some websites in order to figure out how it should go.

Strength: • Quality product. Solid heavy aluminum on all 6 sides. Including both the drive caddy and bay. • Cool. The aluminum dissipate the heat much faster than steal or most other materials. • Narrow bay. A little bit smaller than 5 inches. Which is very useful as it needs less space during transportation, offsite storage. The most popular size for safety deposit boxes are 5 inches. The bay easily fits. • Drives go in and come out smoothly • Useful handle to pull out and hold the drive caddy Challenge: • LP4 and 15-pin SATA connectors are too close to each other at the back of the drive caddy. The challenge is that if you need to connect both a 15-pin SATA power splitter cable and a LP4 power cables on the same drive caddy, depending on those cables shapes and sizes, it might not be possible to connect both. Because those cables are blocking each other. See the attached photo to clarify what I mean by "power splitter cable". If you need to connect either the LP4 power cable or the 15-pin SATA power cable, it works though. This challenge could be resolved if the LP4 and 15-pin SATA power connectors were somehow both much further apart and beside each others. Instead of very close and on top of each other. • Noisy fan. The front small 40mm fan is noisy. For a silent drawer, this fan can easily be either replaced or disconnected when appropriate. • No cable bracket to click onto. The risk is that the connection could come loose over time. A bracket would add a click sound when the SATA data cable is securely fastened into it's port.

I use these to connect my SATA HD's. Simple works and reliable.

I needed to power 2 Trendnet security cameras and connect them and a PC to a network. Accommodated all perfectly and easily.

Connect to PC and done. Could not be any easier.

5 stars! Stable and very easy to adjust level with slider on.

Made my workstation feel like a new pc over the slow sata drive I had in there. Way worth it.

exactly what i needed to connect my pc to the printer