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much thanks yes laptop will be on ac adaptorpower and its to hold my sons
downloaded material ! niall devine
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niall
"D.Currie" wrote:
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> "oisin" <oisin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:632A55F6-2585-4E8A-B77D-9D888F90D8B6@microsoft.com...
> > is an external drive powered only from usb slower or worse than an
> > external
> > drive with connected to power
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> > niall
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> Well, it's drawing power from the base unit, so that has to have enough
> power to support running the drive. If it's running off of a laptop running
> on batteries, it's not going to last long.
>
> Some USB ports don't have a lot of power, so that could be an issue, or you
> could have problems with other USB items that also want to draw power.
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> And, if you've got your USB ports set to power down to conserve power, you
> could turn off the drive at a bad moment.
>
> If this is something you're going to use once in a while to transfer a
> little data now and then, maybe the separate power isn't as important. But
> if it's something you're going to keep plugged in all the time or for
> transferring a lot of data back and forth, I'd go with the powered one. But
> that's just my opinion.
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