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Looking for USB powered external hard drive
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| sdragolov@gmail.com 2006-05-08, 1:12 pm |
| Are there any large (at least 250GB), decently priced USB powered Only
external hard drives???
I'm looking for one which I can transport between US and Europe without
need to use a voltage adapter.
I've seen the portable drives but they tend to be smaller and quite
expensive...
thanks.
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| Gerard Bok 2006-05-10, 1:13 pm |
| On 8 May 2006 06:50:21 -0700, sdragolov@gmail.com wrote:
>Are there any large (at least 250GB), decently priced USB powered Only
>external hard drives???
USB is only designed to supply up to 0.5 Amp per connection.
So your question boils down to 'does anyone supply a harddisk /
controler combo that runs on 2.5 Watts max and yet stores at
least 250 GB and that is also decently priced ?
I think, the answer is --and will be for some time-- no!
But then, I could be wrong :-)
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Kind regards,
Gerard Bok
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| Adaptec sells a kit to create your own large usb hard drive:
http://tinyurl.com/obl5t Sells for about $50 and you supply the
IDE/ATA hard drive.
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| Ian Singer 2006-05-10, 7:12 pm |
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Gerard Bok wrote:
> On 8 May 2006 06:50:21 -0700, sdragolov@gmail.com wrote:
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> USB is only designed to supply up to 0.5 Amp per connection.
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> So your question boils down to 'does anyone supply a harddisk /
> controler combo that runs on 2.5 Watts max and yet stores at
> least 250 GB and that is also decently priced ?
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> I think, the answer is --and will be for some time-- no!
So whats wrong with also using a USB passthrough power cable plugged
into a second UB port? That gives you total of 1 amp.
Ian Singer
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| Gerard Bok 2006-05-10, 7:12 pm |
| On Wed, 10 May 2006 14:35:35 -0400, Ian Singer
<iansinger@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>Gerard Bok wrote:
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>So whats wrong with also using a USB passthrough power cable plugged
>into a second UB port? That gives you total of 1 amp.
Can you find a decently priced harddisk / controler combo that
runs on 5 Watts max and yet stores at least 250 GB :-) ?
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Kind regards,
Gerard Bok
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