cheap HD enclosure won't power up HD

I bought this $20 enclosure to house an internal SATA drive. Once
powered on, the HD only makes a hmmm, hmmm, hmmm looping noise but
never fully powers up. I noticed it does not have a big power supply
and wonder if it's because it does not have strong enough power for
the HD? The HD works with a SATA to USB adapter.

I guess I need to buy a more expensive one. What do you think?

cpliu <spamfreeliu@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I bought this $20 enclosure to house an internal SATA drive. Once powered
> on, the HD only makes a hmmm, hmmm, hmmm looping noise but never fully
> powers up. I noticed it does not have a big power supply and wonder if it's
> because it does not have strong enough power for the HD?

Very likely.

> The HD works with a SATA to USB adapter.

> I guess I need to buy a more expensive one. What do you think?

Or a better power supply, anyway.

cpliu wrote:
> I bought this $20 enclosure to house an internal SATA drive. Once
> powered on, the HD only makes a hmmm, hmmm, hmmm looping noise but
> never fully powers up. I noticed it does not have a big power supply
> and wonder if it's because it does not have strong enough power for
> the HD? The HD works with a SATA to USB adapter.
>
> I guess I need to buy a more expensive one. What do you think?

I have a USB external HDD case that has the same issue. I just power it
on/off a few times and it will then work.