Rather than order a connector he pulled the circuit board out of an old USB hard drive enclosure and connected to his DVD drive. Bang, recognized and running.

It comes with a USB to SATA converter which is how he connects the hard drive to the Raspberry Pi ... The enclosure included a Molex power connector. He sacrificed an old connector to make a ...

A combo port that connects to external SATA (eSATA) drives and USB devices with cables up to two meters long. The eSATA USB Hybrid Port (EUHP) also eliminates the external power cable by supplying ...