Re: What's the best external USB(A&C together) adapters to get for connecting various drives (SATA, IDE/PATA, etc.)?

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage VanguardLH <[email protected]> wrote:
> SATA drives only require 5 VDC power.

The labels of 3.5" SATA HDDs often do say that they need 12VDC as
well, and I see no reason to doubt it. Like IDE drives, the 2.5"
ones seem to all be 5VDC-only. I think you can usually get away
without 3.3V for HDDs, I've never seen one that asked for that
and I've used some drives without the 3.3V power wires connected.

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