Need USB card with enough power for external hard drive
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From: J G Miller on 24 May 2010 13:09 On Monday, May 24th, 2010 at 09:59:21h -0700, Carl explained: > The drive is a 2.5" IDE. What is the brand and capacity of the disk?
From: Carl on 24 May 2010 13:51 On May 24, 1:09 pm, J G Miller <mil...(a)yoyo.ORG> wrote: > On Monday, May 24th, 2010 at 09:59:21h -0700, Carl explained: > > > The drive is a 2.5" IDE. > > What is the brand and capacity of the disk? Seagate 80GB
From: Carl on 24 May 2010 13:54 On May 24, 12:58 pm, Carl <car...(a)mailinator.com> wrote: > > >It's a 2.5" USB drive enclosure. It doesn't have a plug for a power > > >adapter. > > > In that case move the hdd to an external drive case that has an additional > > power plug recepticle on it. Make sure you find out what the internal > > connector is for your 2.5" hdd (IDE or SATA) > > > As an example. With these drives you would need to purchase an additional > > power to USB cable, but it should certainly work if you have two USB ports > > available and one to use for a mouse. This one has an internal SATA > > connection. > > >http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817145329 > > > -- > > Jan Alter > > bear...(a)verizon.net > > That page says "There's no external power necessary either, since the > drive gets its power from your computer." I already have an external > drive case - that's how I'm accessing my 2.5 " IDE drive via a USB > port. > > I don't see any listing on E-Bay matching "wall wart USB socket" as > someone else here suggested (0 listings), and I don't see anything > relevant when searching for "power usb cable." What EXACTLY is it > called - a transformer you plug in the wall, and it has a cable with a > USB socket on the end of it. Thanks. I found some on E-Bay searching with "usb ac power supply."
From: J G Miller on 24 May 2010 14:10 On Mon, 24 May 2010 10:51:12 -0700, Carl wrote: > Seagate 80GB So the maximum fastest transfer rate for that will be 100 MBytes per second, will it not? Have you considered upgrading to something newer? ;) 500 Gbyte 2.5 inch Western Digital Caviar Blue SATA perhaps, or Seagate equivalent?
From: Carl on 24 May 2010 14:17
On May 24, 2:10 pm, J G Miller <mil...(a)yoyo.ORG> wrote: > On Mon, 24 May 2010 10:51:12 -0700, Carl wrote: > > Seagate 80GB > > So the maximum fastest transfer rate for that will be 100 MBytes per second, > will it not? > > Have you considered upgrading to something newer? ;) > > 500 Gbyte 2.5 inch Western Digital Caviar Blue SATA perhaps, > or Seagate equivalent? No. That's a lot faster than USB 2.0 can do, and I don't have an eSATA port on my laptop. |