Y560 Power Over eSATA and HDD

[Inscure]

Hello,

at the begin, sorry for my English.

Yesterday I bought new SSD disk to my notebook and i want to replace the old HDD.

The question is can I use my HDD (sata) via eSata Port with Power Over eSata cable?

[RMattoo Support Specialist]

Hi

Welcome To Lenovo Community

Please check what is mentioned on the Port, weather it is eSATA  or eSATAp

If it is eSATA it will not give any power, if it is eSATAp it will provide 5v/12v

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESATA#External_SATA

Hope This Helps

Cheers!!!

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[Zehnsteine · Accepted solution]

Hi Inscure,

IdeaPad Y560 has one eSATA/USB combo or eSATAp port which supplies 5V/0.5A DC,

but I like to recommend using a Y-cable in any case to have reliable power supply  for external HDD.

Zehn

[peter_dmello]

Thanks both of you. This is very helpful.