Internal optical drive with USB 2.0 motherboard header

[ExalyThor]

Does such a thing exist? I am building an AM4 system and I'll use m.2 exclusively for storage. I would like to give up on SATA connectors altogether, so I am curious if there are any internal 5.25" optical drives which have only one connector to the motherboard for power and data, that being the USB 2.0 header.

[dilpickle]

Never seen one.

[Eigenvektor]

The only optical drives I've ever owned had either IDE or SATA. Of course the last optical drive I owned was 10 years ago…

[AdamBGames]

29 minutes ago, ExalyThor said:

Does such a thing exist? I am building an AM4 system and I'll use m.2 exclusively for storage. I would like to give up on SATA connectors altogether, so I am curious if there are any internal 5.25" optical drives which have only one connector to the motherboard for power and data, that being the USB 2.0 header.

Natively no, I have never seen that. But with a couple adapters, I don't see why it couldn't. A usb to SATA adapter with power input from a barrel jack, mixed with a usb 2.0 header to port adapter and Molex/SATA power to 12v barrel jack, could work.

It's incredibly janky and is only in theory could work, but there you go

[ExalyThor]

13 minutes ago, AdamBGames said:

Natively no, I have never seen that. But with a couple adapters, I don't see why it couldn't. A usb to SATA adapter with power input from a barrel jack, mixed with a usb 2.0 header to port adapter and Molex/SATA power to 12v barrel jack, could work.

It's incredibly janky and is only in theory could work, but there you go

The reason I want such an optical drive is to have less cables, with none coming from the PSU, not to do it just for the sake of doing it.

[_Omega_]

I'll bet you find a internal usb to SATA adapter but, I have never seen something native 

[FrowningHippo]

 it existed in this topic in 2015. So I would assume it is still possible today. These solutions do talk about adapters as well.

 

Edit: The amazon link still works. Lol. Usb -header to female usb port x sata to male USB cable. That would work right?

[ExalyThor]

1 hour ago, FrowningHippo said:

 it existed in this topic in 2015. So I would assume it is still possible today. These solutions do talk about adapters as well.

 

Edit: The amazon link still works. Lol. Usb -header to female usb port x sata to male USB cable. That would work right?

No. I was hoping for an optical drive which would simply have a cable like this for data and power, instead of the regular sata power and data cables:

[FrowningHippo]

19 minutes ago, ExalyThor said:

No. I was hoping for an optical drive which would simply have a cable like this for data and power, instead of the regular sata power and data cables:

I don't think that exists. But then again. I don't know everything.

[Kilrah]

A 5.25" ODD would use more power than what USB can provide, and will probably need 12V too.

 

You could hack in an external USB laptop drive...

[ExalyThor]

16 hours ago, Kilrah said:

A 5.25" ODD would use more power than what USB can provide, and will probably need 12V too.

 

You could hack in an external USB laptop drive...

There are external optical drives which are be powered by usb only. Also one motherboard usb 2.0 connector supplies 1 amp of current, at 5v that's 10w, more than enough to power an optical drive.

[Kilrah]

4 hours ago, ExalyThor said:

1 amp of current, at 5v that's 10w

1A x 5V = 5W.

 

But yes that's enough for the externals based on laptop drives as mentioned.

[ExalyThor]

On 3/19/2023 at 8:25 PM, Kilrah said:

1A x 5V = 5W.

That's silly of me lmao. I was not paying attention.