External SATA connector

[Geoff]

I've seen some fan controllers that have some SATA ports on it, and i've seen PCMCIA cards that have SATA ports on it to hook up an external hard drive. What about power?? none of them have power ports on it, how would you hook up an external hard drive if there is no place to plug the HD in for the power? I know external enclosures work good, but that hooks up via USB or FireWire. Does anyone know what the point of having SATA ports with no power? or tell me where you can get a power converter or something for it. Thanks

 

[The_Other_One]

You have to plug in USB/firewire enclosures, I'm sure SATA would be be same. Now, I have seen some things that had a molex connection on the back so you could say test drives...