Timeline for Raspberry Pi USB power from 5V S-ATA from inside 3.5" HDD Enclosure
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| Dec 2, 2015 at 19:17 | comment | added | Piotr Kula | Hi Matt. Welcome to the Pi Exchange. I understand what you saying but the original poster want to put a Pi into an old 3.5" enclosure, where he replaced the original 3.5" with a 2.5" HDD. He wants to use the original power pack, which is most likely 12volts. But the circuit inside the 3.5" transforms it into 5v... and he want to know if he can use that 5v to power the Pi and the 2.5" HDD at the same time. I didnt downvote you - you are a new comer and believe explaining is better than downvoting. Can you adapt your answer maybe? That will allow downvoters to upvote. | |
| Dec 2, 2015 at 13:53 | comment | added | Matt Williams | I beg to differ; I believe it does. Rather than bothering with the USB connector, use +5v and ground from the sata connector to power the Pi via the GPIO pins. Just watch out for brownouts if you have other devices plugged into the Pi. Additionally, even with powered hubs, there are some drives that I've had to set the max_usb_current in order for the Pi to be able to talk to a drive. | |
| Dec 2, 2015 at 1:50 | comment | added | Chris Stratton | None of this addresses the specific question which was asked. | |
| Dec 2, 2015 at 1:48 | review | Late answers | |||
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| Dec 2, 2015 at 1:22 | history | answered | Matt Williams | CC BY-SA 3.0 |