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External USB harddrive recommendations anoop 10-22-2005
Posted by anoop on October 22, 2005, 8:33 am
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 I'm looking for an external USB harddrive that can
get its power from the USB 1.0 port on my laptop.
Does something like that exist? Can anyone recommend
a particular brand?

Thanks,
Anoop



Posted by John Blessing on October 22, 2005, 5:03 pm
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> I'm looking for an external USB harddrive that can
> get its power from the USB 1.0 port on my laptop.
> Does something like that exist? Can anyone recommend
> a particular brand?
>
> Thanks,
> Anoop


Most I have seen come with two usb leads as one usb port can't provide
enough power. I've bought two from Ebay. Both fine.
Usb 1.0 will be substantially slower than if you had a usb 2 port however.

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Posted by GatorMon on October 22, 2005, 7:11 pm
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My external hard drive is USB powered. The wife and I use laptops now.
When our last desktop quit working, I removed the hard drive. I went to
Comp USA and bought a hard drive case (less than $20.00) installed the
hard drive, plugged it in and it works. Very easy to do.......
Ron

John Blessing wrote:
>
>>I'm looking for an external USB harddrive that can
>>get its power from the USB 1.0 port on my laptop.
>>Does something like that exist? Can anyone recommend
>>a particular brand?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Anoop
>
>
>
> Most I have seen come with two usb leads as one usb port can't provide
> enough power. I've bought two from Ebay. Both fine.
> Usb 1.0 will be substantially slower than if you had a usb 2 port however.
>


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Posted by Barry Watzman on October 24, 2005, 3:49 pm
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One USB port can provide 500ma. This is the "rating" of most 2.5" hard
drives, but there are a few (mostly older units) that are rated higher.
Also, if you are using a motherboard USB port, it may be able to
provide more (sometimes MUCH more) than 500ma. In any case, the cables
with two plugs allow up to 1,000 ma (one amp) to be drawn, which is
enough for any 2.5" hard drive.

By the way, while it should work, using an external hard drive with a
USB 1.0 port (as the OP was planning to do) is going to be terribly slow.


John Blessing wrote:

>
>>I'm looking for an external USB harddrive that can
>>get its power from the USB 1.0 port on my laptop.
>>Does something like that exist? Can anyone recommend
>>a particular brand?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Anoop
>
>
>
> Most I have seen come with two usb leads as one usb port can't provide
> enough power. I've bought two from Ebay. Both fine.
> Usb 1.0 will be substantially slower than if you had a usb 2 port however.
>


Posted by olfart on October 24, 2005, 3:17 pm
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> One USB port can provide 500ma. This is the "rating" of most 2.5" hard
> drives, but there are a few (mostly older units) that are rated higher.
> Also, if you are using a motherboard USB port, it may be able to provide
> more (sometimes MUCH more) than 500ma. In any case, the cables with two
> plugs allow up to 1,000 ma (one amp) to be drawn, which is enough for any
> 2.5" hard drive.
>
> By the way, while it should work, using an external hard drive with a USB
> 1.0 port (as the OP was planning to do) is going to be terribly slow.
>
>
I have 3 - 2.5 HD's in external enclosures. 1 is rated 600ma, 1 is 750ma and
the other one is rated at 1 Amp. They each work well off of 1 USB port
without the use of the 2 plug cables supplied with them. Go figure (:>)




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