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From: BreadWithSpam on 28 Jul 2010 14:05
BreadWithSpam(a)fractious.net writes:
> Greg Buchner <null(a)none.invalid> writes:
> > BreadWithSpam(a)fractious.net wrote:

> [MacAlly aluminum FW/USB/esata enclosure]
>
> > I have one of those sitting empty. It didn't do the job. The hard drive
> > I have (and have had for a couple of years now) requires more power than

> about a week. No problems that I've detected and the drive is being
> used now mostly to hold huge media files.

I may ahve to take back what I just wrote. Moments after I posted
that, in fact, that drive caused problems. Machine was basically
frozen up, even through a forced relaunch of Finder -- until I shut
that drive off. I got the "drive was unplugged without ejecting"
warning, but the rest of the machine behaved again. Dang. If this
happens again, I will have to pull that drive from it and put it into
a different enclosure.

That Netgear NAS/RAID is looking better and better. Or a Drobo.
I don't have the time to muck about with flaky drive enclosures.

(Never had any problems with the OWC ones, by the way, but I may
be jinxing myself by saying so publicly right after this MacAlly
problem)

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From: Jolly Roger on 28 Jul 2010 15:13
In article <yobiq3zbhye.fsf(a)panix3.panix.com>,
BreadWithSpam(a)fractious.net wrote:

> BreadWithSpam(a)fractious.net writes:
> > Greg Buchner <null(a)none.invalid> writes:
> > > BreadWithSpam(a)fractious.net wrote:
>
> > [MacAlly aluminum FW/USB/esata enclosure]
> >
> > > I have one of those sitting empty. It didn't do the job. The hard drive
> > > I have (and have had for a couple of years now) requires more power than
>
> > about a week. No problems that I've detected and the drive is being
> > used now mostly to hold huge media files.
>
> I may ahve to take back what I just wrote. Moments after I posted
> that, in fact, that drive caused problems. Machine was basically
> frozen up, even through a forced relaunch of Finder -- until I shut
> that drive off. I got the "drive was unplugged without ejecting"
> warning, but the rest of the machine behaved again. Dang. If this
> happens again, I will have to pull that drive from it and put it into
> a different enclosure.
>
> That Netgear NAS/RAID is looking better and better. Or a Drobo.
> I don't have the time to muck about with flaky drive enclosures.

Last time I looked at the Netgear NAS solutions, they didn't seem as
flexible as the Drobo.

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From: Greg Buchner on 28 Jul 2010 16:12
In article <yob4ofjh8dk.fsf(a)panix2.panix.com>,
BreadWithSpam(a)fractious.net wrote:

> What kinds of drives have you used in it? I've never really paid much
> attention to the power requirements as I've never experienced any
> problems with external enclosures (well, non bus-powered).

It was holding a Seagate 1TB. I'll probably be buying a WD Green to put
in it eventually, but at the moment, I have that 1TB drive that's not
being used.

Greg B.

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From: Greg Buchner on 28 Jul 2010 16:20
In article <yobiq3zbhye.fsf(a)panix3.panix.com>,
BreadWithSpam(a)fractious.net wrote:

> BreadWithSpam(a)fractious.net writes:
> > Greg Buchner <null(a)none.invalid> writes:
> > > BreadWithSpam(a)fractious.net wrote:
>
> > [MacAlly aluminum FW/USB/esata enclosure]
> >
> > > I have one of those sitting empty. It didn't do the job. The hard drive
> > > I have (and have had for a couple of years now) requires more power than
>
> > about a week. No problems that I've detected and the drive is being
> > used now mostly to hold huge media files.
>
> I may ahve to take back what I just wrote. Moments after I posted
> that, in fact, that drive caused problems. Machine was basically
> frozen up, even through a forced relaunch of Finder -- until I shut
> that drive off. I got the "drive was unplugged without ejecting"
> warning, but the rest of the machine behaved again. Dang. If this
> happens again, I will have to pull that drive from it and put it into
> a different enclosure.

That's the exact same problem I was having with that enclosure.

Check out the the drives specs for power consumption. My enclosure came
with a 2A power supply, drive specs out at 3A at startup. I can't find
the specs I originally looked at when I was having problems, but with
sustained reads or writes, it could hit around 2A of power consumption.

Greg B.

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From: BreadWithSpam on 28 Jul 2010 16:44
Greg Buchner <null(a)none.invalid> writes:
> BreadWithSpam(a)fractious.net wrote:
>
> > What kinds of drives have you used in it? I've never really paid much
> > attention to the power requirements as I've never experienced any
> > problems with external enclosures (well, non bus-powered).
>
> It was holding a Seagate 1TB. I'll probably be buying a WD Green to put
> in it eventually, but at the moment, I have that 1TB drive that's not
> being used.

Hrm. The drive in it right now is a 2TB WD Green. I'll have to
review the specs. Dang.

I think this may also explain problems I'd had in the past with a
newertech voyager s2 USB drop-the-drive-in base.

OTOH, the specs for the WD Green max out at needing 6 watts for
read/write. Shouldn't 12V 2A be way more than adequate for that?

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