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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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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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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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.
>
> 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!

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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On Wed, 10 May 2006 14:35:35 -0400, Ian Singer
<iansinger@sympatico.ca> wrote:

>Gerard Bok wrote: 
>
>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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Gerard Bok

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