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.
The hard drive is an IBM TotalStorage hard drive. From my searches on the web it does not appear to be a normal SATA hard drive, but I am unsure exactly as to what it is.
Some Sata have a Sata connection for DATA and an old school 4 pin molex connector for power.
There IS an actual SATA style power connector. My guess is your power supply DOES NOT have sata power connectors.
The power connector on a SATA drive is actually bigger than the data portion.
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