Can anyone provide examples of external USB disk enclosures that don’t need an external power supply?
November 13, 2010 - 7:41 pm
I’ve got a run of the mill disk enclosure that connects to my PC via USB, and has its own AC power adapter. In the interest of conservation, I’d like to replace this enclosure with one that gets all its power from my PC, so that when it goes into standby or shuts down, the external drive will also. I recognize that a standard USB connection doesn’t provide sufficient power; would it require a dual-USB connection? Doesn Firewire provide more power?
it has to be a 2.5 inch enclosure with a laptop hardrive(2.5inch)
November 14th, 2010 at 1:06 am
it has to be a 2.5 inch enclosure with a laptop hardrive(2.5inch)
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November 14th, 2010 at 1:34 am
Go to Best Buy and look on the shelf. Purchased an enclosure and 120G drive that runs off one port with not external power required. Have an older one I got long ago from Frys that requires nothing but the disk. Used it to recover data fram a failed laptop. Had ti use a standard USB cable for connection.
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