Buffalo Boosts External Hard Drive Power
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Oh that is just what the doctor ordered! I can’t even begin to tell how many times a power-pack for an external hard drive would come in handy!
External USB hard drives are the easiest way of taking your data with you. Unfortunately, many products restrict mobility because they require a large, bulky external power supply unit. Buffalo now offers a product that solves this problem with a much more elegant idea for powering its drives.
The obligatory external power supply is pretty much a necessity for external storage based on 3.5″ hard drives, because those drives have a power draw that exceeds the 2.5 W that USB 2.0 can provide (500 mA at 5 V). Compact hard drives, however, do not necessarily require such high current. Many 2.5″ external products can be powered by USB; certainly, all 1.8″ and 1″ external hard drives can work without supplemental power.
Still, compact hard drives do not suit everybody’s requirements. Smaller disk platters mean less power is needed, but less storage is also provided. 1″ hard drives are available at capacities of up to 8 GB; 1.8″ models store up to 60 GB; and 2.5″ drives feature capacities of up to 160 GB today. In the case of 2.5″ drives, this is quite a bit of storage space, but it is far from the 500 GB of modern high-end 3.5″ hard drives. Source: TH
Tags: external hard drive, external power supply, smaller disk platters, 500 gb
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Andrea
January 1st, 2008
at 5:36pm
I have had many difficulties with this specific piece of hardware. When a certain game was installed, the external hard drive was G. The program left a footprint on drive C. Later, the externals letter was changed to R. Now the game will not work, but other programs which did not leave footprints do. Is there a way to set it back to G? Or is there a way to make it work instead of starting all over and re-installing everything?