Comments on: help: portable bus-powered USB hard drives

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:43:23 +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.

By: eric

eric — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:38:51 +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.

By: Jim Reverend

Jim Reverend — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:43:23 +0000

By: eric

eric — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:38:51 +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.

By: Jim Reverend

Jim Reverend — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:54:59 +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. :)

By: farrisgoldstein

farrisgoldstein — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:40:32 +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.

By: Jim Reverend

Jim Reverend — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:46:03 +0000

Thanks!

By: joiseyguy

joiseyguy — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:40:46 +0000

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