Gigabyte eSATA Bracket

Darren555 · 8 Dec 2007 at 16:56

I want to use a 250Gb Maxtor Diamondmax SATA II 7200rpm hard drive as a back up with a Gigabyte eSATA bracket.
Is it safe to use a bare drive without a caddy?
I will only use it about once a month.

Indy500 · 8 Dec 2007 at 16:59

How will you power the drive? :confused:

Darren555 · 8 Dec 2007 at 17:05

sr4470 said:
How will you power the drive?

The bracket has a molex power connection & a supplied molex to sata power cable

Sirrel Squirrel · 8 Dec 2007 at 17:06

Molex on the bracket. You'd be fine running without a caddy if it's only once a month as you say.

Darren555 · 8 Dec 2007 at 17:07

Indy500 · 8 Dec 2007 at 17:07

Darren555 said:
The bracket has a molex power connection & a supplied molex to sata power cable

Thats fine then.

mosfet · 8 Dec 2007 at 17:11

Darren555 said:
I want to use a 250Gb Maxtor Diamondmax SATA II 7200rpm hard drive as a back up with a Gigabyte eSATA bracket.
Is it safe to use a bare drive without a caddy?
I will only use it about once a month.

This is fine, I've got the same setup. Just make sure the drive doesn't get knocked or trodden on whilst it's spinning, and try to keep it either horizontal or vertical.

Darren555 · 8 Dec 2007 at 17:13

Cheers

jbloggs · 8 Dec 2007 at 17:23

I have used this facility on a Gigabyte GA P35 DS3P a number of time, all I did was put the HDD on an antistatic bag on top of the desk, and used the supplied (by Gigabyte) eSATA and molex to Sata cables to power it etc.

I found it best to connect the cables to the HDD while the computer was powered off, then power on, it all works well.