power the hard drive using usb or powerbank

m-salman1

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Jul 21, 2014
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hello, i have two internal hard drives, SATA, and i would like to connect them to my laptop, i have the connector system that allows u to do that, it has some cables and a power supply, but the problem is i really dont want to carry that power supply everywhere and look for a socket so i can use the drives, i was thinking about powering them using the usb, i have a powerbank which outputs 5v, 2.1A . which i think should be enough to power them (just my wild guess honestly :p ) . the hard disk drives has this written on them "5v 360ma, 12v 670ma" and the other drive says "5v 0.68A, 12v 0.55A" . i would like to know if there is a way to power these drives with the powerbank or usb from my laptop. thanks in advance.