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Re: help: portable bus-powered USB hard drives

revjim — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:43:23 -0000

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.

Re: help: portable bus-powered USB hard drives

eric — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:38:51 -0000

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.

Re: help: portable bus-powered USB hard drives

revjim — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:54:59 -0000

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. :)

Re: help: portable bus-powered USB hard drives

farrisgoldstein — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:40:32 -0000

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.

Re: help: portable bus-powered USB hard drives

revjim — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:46:03 -0000

Thanks!

Re: help: portable bus-powered USB hard drives

joiseyguy — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:40:46 -0000

My Lacie 80GB stays connected to my laptop pretty much all the time with just the single USB port with not problems.