How to Connect Power Disable SATA Drive to Dell Inspiron 5676
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Take a wire cutter and cut off the orange wire at both ends. Throw it away.
It's the wire that carries 3.3V power. No SATA drive has ever used it so you'll never going to need it.
Molex, the old 4-pin connector doesn't have 3.3V. So a molex to SATA adapter works with the HDD because it doesn't have an orange wire with 3.3V...
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@marcinozga said in How to Connect Power Disable SATA Drive to Dell Inspiron 5676:
How about Sata to molex adapter and another molex to sata?
Couldn't find one, I looked. Do you know of one? That would be simple.
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@CCWTech said in How to Connect Power Disable SATA Drive to Dell Inspiron 5676:
@scottalanmiller Is it a standard size Power Supply or is the case SFF?
Large case.
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@RojoLoco said in How to Connect Power Disable SATA Drive to Dell Inspiron 5676:
Are all the SATA ports enabled in BIOS?
Yes, and the BIOS still can't see the drive.
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@Pete-S said in How to Connect Power Disable SATA Drive to Dell Inspiron 5676:
Take a wire cutter and cut off the orange wire at both ends. Throw it away.
It's the wire that carries 3.3V power. No SATA drive has ever used it so you'll never going to need it.
Molex, the old 4-pin connector doesn't have 3.3V. So a molex to SATA adapter works with the HDD because it doesn't have an orange wire with 3.3V...
I had been wondering if there wasn't a way to do this
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@scottalanmiller said in How to Connect Power Disable SATA Drive to Dell Inspiron 5676:
@CCWTech said in How to Connect Power Disable SATA Drive to Dell Inspiron 5676:
@scottalanmiller Is it a standard size Power Supply or is the case SFF?
Large case.
Replace power supply.
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You could put nail polish over the pin on the power connector on the drive itself. Or a small piece of electrical tape
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@scottalanmiller said in How to Connect Power Disable SATA Drive to Dell Inspiron 5676:
How can I stop the power on Pin 3 so that the drive will fire up?
Hot glue
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Byte My Bits did a video on this a while back. Electrical tape over the third pin works.
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@scottalanmiller said in How to Connect Power Disable SATA Drive to Dell Inspiron 5676:
Dell Inspiron 5676
Is this for a gaming system or what?
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@dbeato said in How to Connect Power Disable SATA Drive to Dell Inspiron 5676:
@scottalanmiller said in How to Connect Power Disable SATA Drive to Dell Inspiron 5676:
Dell Inspiron 5676
Is this for a gaming system or what?
It is, yeah. So nothing super critical.
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@scottalanmiller said in How to Connect Power Disable SATA Drive to Dell Inspiron 5676:
@marcinozga said in How to Connect Power Disable SATA Drive to Dell Inspiron 5676:
How about Sata to molex adapter and another molex to sata?
Couldn't find one, I looked. Do you know of one? That would be simple.
https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=7642 - male sata to female molex
https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=8799 - male molex to female sata -
I ran into this and ended up putting Kapton tape over pin 3.
Since the tape was wider than the pins I put a piece of tape over all the contacts and used an x-acto knife to cut out the tape covering the other pins.
Do not use electrical tape. The glue is very gummy and will ooze under the higher temperatures. When you withdraw the connector (or drive from the cage) the tape could stay behind and will probably leave a sticky mess in the connector.
Kapton doesn't have these problems. It will continue to hold under high temperatures and will release cleanly when you need it to.
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@kevinc
Forgot the link where I saw this first -
I agree with @kevinc - don’t use Electrical tape. Gods you should have seen the old fabric style electrical tape. It was an even worse nightmare!
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@gjacobse said in How to Connect Power Disable SATA Drive to Dell Inspiron 5676:
I agree with @kevinc - don’t use Electrical tape. Gods you should have seen the old fabric style electrical tape. It was an even worse nightmare!
Yeah, wasn't going to, have had that melt into stuff way too many times.
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Confirmed, snipping the orange wire (I needed help as I can't see orange) did the job, drive showed up immediately.
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Interesting problem - how did you know it was Power Disabled?
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@Dashrender said in How to Connect Power Disable SATA Drive to Dell Inspiron 5676:
Interesting problem - how did you know it was Power Disabled?
Combination of its behaviour and searching on the drive and finding a list of models and WD having a paper on it. Took a lot of research. But once you know Power Disabled exists, know your model number, know to check it, know what it will do... THEN it's easy to find. But you have to have all those pieces to even know what to look for.
But WD has a guide to which models have it. But if you aren't told the exact model before ordering, that does you no good!
