What kind of SATA cable does the optical drive use?

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I took out my optical drive and put in an SSD and now i want to use the optical drive externally. what kind of SATA connection does the MBP 13" mid-2009 use? I can not seem to find the answer anywhere.
 
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Place the optical drive you removed in a SATA type USB carrier (can be purchased most anywhere) and attach it to your machine via a standard USB cable. That's all you need to do to have it work as an external optical drive.
 
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thanks and one more question. do you know if the superdrive (optical drive whatever you want to call it) requires 5v or 5v+12v to run?
 
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It'll run fine with the 5V provided by the USB ports to the external carrier. Some external carriers are self powered running off AC to a DC conversion of 5V. Just depends on what kind of carrier you buy. The self powered models are more reliable but cost more.
 

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