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Angrykirill
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12-23-2007 at 07:05:49 PM

Hi, hope this is in the right forum.

I'm looking at an external HDD and the 500GB MyBook from Western Digital looks real tempting.. question is, it says a power adapter is included. Let me get this correctly - you plug it in somewhere to make it work? The powering is independant from the PC?

Thanks in advance

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12-23-2007 at 07:57:47 PM
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n°1738229
12-23-2007 at 08:38:51 PM

Joe_The_Dragon wrote :

get a firewire External HDD



WTF? What has this got to do with his question?

And yes. It is independent. You get power from the outlet.

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12-23-2007 at 08:54:35 PM

Angrykirill wrote :

Hi, hope this is in the right forum.

I'm looking at an external HDD and the 500GB MyBook from Western Digital looks real tempting.. question is, it says a power adapter is included. Let me get this correctly - you plug it in somewhere to make it work? The powering is independant from the PC?

Thanks in advance


Since a 3.5 inch hard drive requires 12 and 5(more then a usb port can give) volts. you need an external power adapter.

If you are looking for pc powered you will need to get a notebook drive(2.5 inch). They take only 5 volts and will run off most usb ports. in the worst case you can use 2 usb ports to get the needed power....

While firewire can power it. most(cheap) enclosures still just use the external power supply as to require less electronics in the enclosure. High end enclosures will do it, but there is quite a cost in most cases....


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n°1738233
12-23-2007 at 10:19:16 PM

Thanks, I'm NOT looking for PC powered since I wouldn't want to put any unnecessary pressure on the PSU, a 500GB e-hdd looks like an ultimate power drainer so I'm glad it's powered from an external source.

Thanks again!

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n°1738235
12-23-2007 at 10:54:54 PM

firewire and e-sata disks are faster then usb.


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n°1738268
12-24-2007 at 01:57:58 PM

Cost much more though :)

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n°1738273
12-24-2007 at 05:37:57 PM

dont worry for day to day tasks. music video word excel usb is fine....its only games that will load slower....but once loaded they will be in ram anyway....

I use usb for backup because everyone has usb :)


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