Adapter 12v molex to barrel?

[dianedebuda]

Have several hd in external esata enclosures. Would like to have option of using a pair of 4-pin molex on front bay to power them, so looking for a molex to barrel adapter(s). Anyone seen any or made one?

Have molex to sata power adapters, but need these drives in external cases that can be brick-powered when on other computers. I often have 4 externals powered at the same time on my main computer and the spaghetti wires and the bricks on 6" extensions are a mess. It would also be nice to "auto" power-down the drives when turning off the computer.

I realize that this is pretty niche. Have spent quite a bit of time googling without really coming up with anything. Posted this over at Tom's yesterday. Someone know a better spot?

 

[imagoon]

You mean this:

http://www.e-itx.com/cab-pwr-m4-b2p.html

then using this:

http://www.e-itx.com/cab-pwr-2p-13ft.html

?

I am sure if I looked harder I could find better lengths

 

[Lonyo]

Presumably you already have the external drives?
If not, there are some Seagate drives which have a detachable base, and if you remove it, you expose the SATA data and power connectors, so you could unplug the drive from the base, and plug it in to PC connectors.

Not sure that hotplugging drives power wise is always the best idea though

 

[dianedebuda]

imagoon, you definitely see the functionality of what I'm trying to describe. I saw that molex/female barrel thingy but skipped it. My bay molex is Male, so I'd have to use a gender adapter there as well as the F-M at the barrel. So although it should function, it seems pretty messy and I would prefer a simpler approach. Ideally I would like a Female molex to a Y with 2-4 Male 2.1mm barrels. Have thought about cutting up some existing bricks & soldering them to a cut up molex Y. Don't know why Sewell's bay adapter has Male molex instead of Female nor why all the connectors seem to be mounted upside down, but it seems to be about all that's available for dual esata bay fronts.

Lonyo, I do already have about 2 dozen of the external enclosures & drives, so don't think I'll change ponies at this point. Have been successfully hot swapping for quite a while, but there is a power switch on the drive that I ALWAYS use before removing the drive. Always have the next drive fully connected before turning on the switch for power. So far, so good.

Edit: Or maybe you were meaning it's not a good idea to change power usage for the computer itself by hot swapping? Hadn't thought of that...

Thanks for your comments!