Re: USB power? -- PCTECH

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Subject: Re: USB power?
From: "David Gibbs" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 21:13:27 -0600 (CST)
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On Wed, December 28, 2005 7:33 pm, Don said:
> Power draw of the drive excedes that available via USB port?  Kinda hard
> to imagine me pushing the 400gig externals I use for removeable backups
> from a USB power stream...

Yeah, but one USB chassis required external power and the other didn't ...
using the same drive.

In fact, the chassis I have now doesn't even have the ability to take
external power.

david

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