[CentOS] Re: Live CD Planning systems

on 1/7/2008 1:46 AM John R Pierce spake the following:

John Bowden wrote:

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I have a external USB HD enclosure that takes its power from the one USB socket. Its only failed to do so on one oldish tower that a friend of mine has, on that machine it needed the second "power" connection. Got it from Ebay

thts also out of spec, as USB is speced for 2.5 watts, 500mA at 5V, per port. Typlical laptop HD is like 5 watts, more when spinning up.

yes, I know it usually works. just saying...

Sometimes you can find small 4 to 6 gig closeout drives with lower power requirements. And you can look around for 1.8 inch drives and enclosures. That should run on a single port.