(2020-08-05, 10:18 AM)fishy Wrote:I'm using a Geekworm X857 with an mSATA drive. It's powered from the USB port, and works great. You might consider just moving to mSATA - it's smaller and the board powers from the USB port. I think their 2.5 inch drive adapter probably would also, but they included the electronics on that board to use a power switch.(2020-08-04, 09:46 PM)rastam4n Wrote:(2020-08-04, 09:42 PM)abarrow Wrote: I agree on your assessment of Geekworm stuff. Really nice. I just put together a system using their X710 power board, which allows a wide range of input power. It does have a couple of 5V outputs, switched and unswitched. I really like their pushbutton shutdown and reboot feature.
Oh wow I didn't even see that board! That is the answer to my under voltage, I can just feed it 12 volts directly!
Just ordered Now looking for a solution for my 2.5"SATA ssd drives. Maybe only a USB adapter... All the Geekworm SSD options seem to require external power
EDIT: I was curious, so I looked at the Geekworm WIKI regarding the X825 2.5 inch drive adapter. They show it as working with their power board, you just don't use the 5V in - you use a jumper to 5V out from the power board to the X825.