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On my laptop I have an eSATA port. And I also have a SATA → eSATA cable.
I know that simply using that cable would never work as the SATA disks require an additional power cable. The question is: How are those eSATA ports supposed to work?
Where can I get the power cable? Or do actually I need special eSATA drives?
I tried to find eSATA disks and wasn't able to find them.
The only differences between Sata and eSata are the connector style and eSata cables are shielded. It should work. You may have problems when you connect it while booted if AHCI is not enabled in the bios and software is not installed for it.
AHCI allows for hot plugging of Sata.
If AHCI is not enabled in the bios or does not have the option to use it, that is a whole other problem to solve, you will have to connect and power up the external drive before you Boot the PC if AHCI is not enabled or not available.
Best Answer
You'd need to get a hard drive dock that is compatible with eSATA. This one is an example of one that connects with both eSATA and USB but just google for eSATA dock and you'll get plenty of options.
If you want a prebuilt solution rather than using a drive you already have I found some by just googling esata drive here's one example.