How many pin of sata hard drive power line interface

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my old hard drive is the IDE power cord interface ( 4-pin). Now the hard drive had bad, and I want to buy a sata power interface. My motherboard has sata interface, but I don't know how many pin the sata hard drive interface to connect the power supply interface. Could I use my old power supply?
 
my old hard drive is the IDE power cord interface ( 4-pin). Now the hard drive had bad, and I want to buy a sata power interface. My motherboard has sata interface, but I don't know how many pin the sata hard drive interface to connect the power supply interface. Could I use my old power supply?
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There are 3 voltages 3.3V, 5V and 12V

There are adapters available that convert from Molex (4-pin old style) to SATA connectors.
Yes but only the older SATA drives can run with only 5V and 12V

The Seagate I got this Christmas came with a slip of paper in the box that says "requires 3.3V to operate. Failure to supply 3.3V may damage device"
 

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