Wasn't sure if this should go in PSU or Electronics forum so my appologies if this is the wrong place.
Recently I upgraded and I noticed the mobo came with an eSATA bracket. This bracket surprised me because it has a female 4 pin molex connector on the back which hooks up to the PSU: picture.
I would really like to use something like this to power some 3.5" eSATA drives + 120mm fan in an old SCSI enclosure I have sitting around. I need to know what kind of safe max cable distance I can go for on normal 4 pin molex though? My PSU is an Antech Truepower New 750W. The hard drives are undecided at the moment.
Also is it ok to put 4pin molex cables outside the case like this? I'm assuming they aren't properly shielded from causing em interference. Is there some sort of external power cable I could use in this situation? Any other suggestions on achieving what I want are welcome as well. Thank you for any info anyone can provide.