Question Question usb sata adadpter ugreen

[gamerfan]

I still haven't been able to contact Ugreen; they haven't responded yet.

Using a 12V 5A power supply, does this Ugreen new CM257 adapter support this Asus 5.25" SATA DVD drive and can it read and write discs or no? i use Windows 10

 

[Paperdoc]

From what U can find, that Ugreen adapter comes in two versions: one with, and one without, a power supply "brick". You NEED the power supply unit with the one model. It plugs into the main adapter body to provide power to the attached drive. That should supply all the power required for an optical drive - it is rated to supply 12 VDC up to 2.0 A, and that is required for the drive's motors. (The power for the adapter's electronic conversions is the 5 VDC supplied at up to 0.9 A by the USB3 connection.)

You have not given us the model number of the optical drive so we cannot check its specs to be sure about power.

I do see in some online posts that some optical drives do not operate exactly as SATA hard drives, and so whether this can work for you may depend on whether the "translator" chip in the adapter that converts (in both directions) between SATA and USB3 interfaces can deal with whatever the optical drive is doing. One certainly would hope it can work if the drive is designed to work with any common SATA port on a mobo, but that might depend on the driver used by the SATA port.