This great adapter I've been hoarding, along with a USB plug to Molex adapter is the good news for today. This is what will take care of Pogplug 3's SATA based on how well it works in Windows on a Hitachi 2.5" hard drive. Long term-reliability won't be evident until the long term however, unless it has a blow out in the near-term.
There's more to it than that, however. You know those SATA adapter kits with power supply including 5v and 12v for 3.5" hard drives? I've been using old 3.5" hard drives on my thin client with one of those adapters feeding 5v and 12v - either it's Seagates, because I went through 4 old Seagates in the last month, or they're getting fed bad electricity from the power supply. Two of the Seagates acted squirrel-y from the main computer as well, so I don't think it was entirely the power supply. Also that single-unit power supply takes up at least 10 watts off the wall all the time.
So, just a reminder, when you've got your OS drive, or swap, the fastest drive will be SATA, and that's why I'll be focused a couple months this winter on 2.5" hard drives with smaller capacity (my Pogo 3s will still probably run on USB 2 though [unless Bodhi specifies otherwise with updated kernel]), and leave storage to USB 3.0 and whatever.
So yes, 5v off the USB jack is well enough for a 2.5" SATA II and is magnitudes faster than if it were plugged into a USB adapter.
Habibie you remember that link to your USB to Molex adapter? I'd made one but never tested it until this afternoon.
* thanks for letting me ramble :-)
There's more to it than that, however. You know those SATA adapter kits with power supply including 5v and 12v for 3.5" hard drives? I've been using old 3.5" hard drives on my thin client with one of those adapters feeding 5v and 12v - either it's Seagates, because I went through 4 old Seagates in the last month, or they're getting fed bad electricity from the power supply. Two of the Seagates acted squirrel-y from the main computer as well, so I don't think it was entirely the power supply. Also that single-unit power supply takes up at least 10 watts off the wall all the time.
So, just a reminder, when you've got your OS drive, or swap, the fastest drive will be SATA, and that's why I'll be focused a couple months this winter on 2.5" hard drives with smaller capacity (my Pogo 3s will still probably run on USB 2 though [unless Bodhi specifies otherwise with updated kernel]), and leave storage to USB 3.0 and whatever.
So yes, 5v off the USB jack is well enough for a 2.5" SATA II and is magnitudes faster than if it were plugged into a USB adapter.
Habibie you remember that link to your USB to Molex adapter? I'd made one but never tested it until this afternoon.
* thanks for letting me ramble :-)