eSATA external hard drive enclosure that supports power from combo USB port?

[nando4]

What is a e-sata/usb combo port?
USB Port Pinout	1 Red 5 Volt 2 White Data - 3 Green Data + 4 Black Ground

The e-sata/usb combo port has 7 SATA pins on the top row, and the 4 USB pins are in the hole inserts. The cable that would connect to it would runs wires from the e-sata port, plus pin 1 and 4 of the USB to provide powered sata to the other end in a single cable, as some of the kits below provide.

HDD cables/enclosures

US$14 2.5“ Power Over eSATA enclosure / ebay +pics/benchmarks (Delock / HE-2521B)

US$12 2.5" eSATA/USB Combo Silicon Case

US$10 BYTECC USB/eSATA to SATA Cable

Optical drive cables/enclosures

US$25 SATA HDD to USB 2.0 port cable

US$20 eSATA-USB combo port cable

US$11-delivered 12.7mm sata-to-USB enclosure

US$17-delivered 9.5mm sata-to-USB enclosure

US$50 Dell_E-Series 9.5mm external media module

US$14-delivered eSATA/USB to SATA

Misc cables

US$26 eSATA+USB to eSATA (3ft) $US17 eSATA+USB to eSATA USB

15euro esata Kabel

2.5" sata HDD versus sata optical drive sata connector - They are different.

[jessea510]

but the other cable looks a lot cleaner

[ziesemer]

Thanks for the updates, but I'm still waiting for the DeLOCK #42465 enclosure, or a comparable - due to the features and options that I previously mentioned.

I did get a response back from my email to Delock. It came from their Taiwan office. They said I could order it directly from them, for $33 USD + shipping.

[bense]

great thread

[bcc]

Has anyone in the US tried the delock enclosure or newmodus esata-usb combo kit?

I'm interested in the newmodus product but it's not clear whether or not the cable meets the shielding spec for esata. My laptop has marginal esata so I wouldn't want to make things worse if the power & data lines interfere in that combined cable. I also noticed that in the photo of the non-kit version of the cable, there are actually two separate cables attached to the plugs but in the kit version there is one cable. Neither look shielded in the photos but it's hard to tell.

[Gordyboyuk]

so anyone found the holy grail of a single cable external 2.5 inch external drive solution out of these products ?

i just wanna stick in a nice 500GB external drive now an then for fast backups

[bcc]

Originally Posted by Gordyboyuk

so anyone found the holy grail of a single cable external 2.5 inch external drive solution out of these products ?

I just today received the newmodus esata-usb kit. It is working fine so far with my dell 1340 notebook's combo port. The kit came with the single cable version as shown in the pic a few posts back. The cable is a lot more flexible than a typical 26AWG esata cable, so probably not shielded. But the cable is only .5meter, not the typical 1 meter esata cable, and so I think this avoids shielding/interference concerns (per the spec you can go up to .5 meter without the higher esata voltage requirements).

The plug on the drive side has two little red led power lights, which I hadn't seen noted anywhere. A nice touch.

[Gordyboyuk]

thats sound perfect mate thanks for replying

al chuck in the fastest 500GB hard drive for rapid file transfers an back up while i figure out what sort of server to build

and your right a half meter cable is fine unshielded besides there error correction and being .5 meter and very flexible it will stow away nicely aswell!

[bcc]

Originally Posted by Gordyboyuk

thats sound perfect mate thanks for replying

al chuck in the fastest 500GB hard drive for rapid file transfers an back up while i figure out what sort of server to build

I think the 7200rpm seagate momentus is the only choice if you want 500gb and performance. That's what I'm using now actually. (Jumpered to 1.5gbps because of nvidia mcp79 issues of course, grrr).

Originally Posted by Gordyboyuk

and your right a half meter cable is fine unshielded besides there error correction and being .5 meter and very flexible it will stow away nicely aswell!

The cable was actually rolled up in the rubber "enclosure", so yes, plenty flexible.

[ekovalsky]

I'm was looking for a eSATA enclosure that would connect to the combi-port of my SXPS16. Found the Delock 42465 which seems to be the only option right now if you exclude Y-cables and adapters. Anyone know how to source one of these in the USA ? Seems like there is no distribution here.

Are there any other enclosures available that take advantage of the combi-port ? Saw the newmodus mentioned but couldn't find any info on it -- any links to this ?