revjim.net: help: portable bus-powered USB hard drives
joiseyguy
· 1 year ago
My Lacie 80GB stays connected to my laptop pretty much all the time with just the single USB port with not problems.
Jim Reverend
· 1 year ago
Thanks!
farrisgoldstein
· 1 year ago
I used to have a few Lacie devices. The ones I had were very unreliable, but I've read that they've gotten much better, and that they've even jumped segments from super-cheap to super-reliable.
They also have a line called "Big Disk" which is, hands down, the best name for a storage product EVER.
Jim Reverend
· 1 year ago
Excellent. Good to know. That may be the route I take for all of this then.
Still really want a N800. And, hell, and iTouch too. :)
eric
· 1 year ago
WD Passport with MacBook Pro and short USB cable works fine.
On Windows, old FireWire Direct drive works fine with short cable but fails with longer (Blackberry) cable. Maxtor has problems with its short Y-cable but works partially with longer cable.
Jim Reverend
· 1 year ago
I've found that the success it highly dependent on both the host USB ports and the cable. I am now able to get a WD Passport and an Acomdata drive working on 3 different machines with only one USB port. Just took a lot of trial and error to figure it out.
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They also have a line called "Big Disk" which is, hands down, the best name for a storage product EVER.
Still really want a N800. And, hell, and iTouch too. :)
On Windows, old FireWire Direct drive works fine with short cable but fails with longer (Blackberry) cable. Maxtor has problems with its short Y-cable but works partially with longer cable.
ports and the cable. I am now able to get a WD Passport and an
Acomdata drive working on 3 different machines with only one USB port.
Just took a lot of trial and error to figure it out.