SSD Not Powered via Slimline SATA port

njbee

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Dec 14, 2016
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Hi all,

I bought a cheap SATA/Slimline SATA adapter in lieu of an HDD caddy to install a Corsair force SSD into my old Dell latitude e5430's optical drive bay. I can confirm that the drive and cable are sound; I tested two drives (SSD and HDD) with a Vostro 1440 and both were detected in Windows 10 and usable.

My question is in regard to the e5430, in which the drive is not detected in BIOS or Windows DM. I strongly believe it is not receiving power, as the HDD I tried did not spin up like it did in the Vostro. Windows is booting off an SSD via AHCI so there should be no incompatibilities. Are there any power options for the fixed drive bay? Are there any registry fixes like ZeroODDPower in Win8? Any insight or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
 

Both drives are confirmed working. There are no power supply cables in question, just the adapter cable: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BTDAO6M/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

The SSD works perfectly as a second drive in the Dell Vostro. It mounts and operates normally. Neither drive will work with the Dell e5430, they simply don't seem to receive power at the port. No BIOS detection, no active or unknown devices, nothing. The HDD does not spin up on start like it does in the Vostro. This leads me to believe its power related but I have no idea where to begin changing power settings for that port.
 


The drive won't work without a power cable, you can't just use the SATA cable to the motherboard for that. The wider connection on that adapter you linked is for the power plug from the power supply for the hard drives. Looks like this:

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The cable I linked (which is SATA+power) plugs into the slimline sata port of the optical bay and powers and mounts both drives perfectly. It works exactly as intended in the Vostro laptop. My question is regarding the SSATA port on the e5430 but I doubt I'm getting the answer I'm looking for at this point.