Yeah - they're very good. Most laptop drives can be powered fine from a USB port (my 10 Gb hitachi works fine)
However I could not power it from an unpowered USB hub, even with nothing else in the hub. The answer was to plug the drive directly into a USB port on the machine. And even a 2 Gb laptop drive puts those USB keydrives to shame for size :) -----Original Message----- From: Jim Cheetham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 31 January 2005 2:07 p.m. To: [email protected] Subject: Re: USB 2.0 IDE Cartridge drive Vik Olliver wrote: > I dunno, I bought the thing with a 3 1/2" enclosure and PSU for less > than that. NZ$48 inclusive from Easycomm if I recall correctly. Flashcards are shipping a 2.5" USB2 drive enclosure for around $26 at the moment, I've just bought a couple for running backups :-) http://www.flashcards.co.nz/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=55_67&products_id =179 No power needed, although if you want (suggested for long data transfers) you can string on a second USB cable (supplied), that's used only for power. -jim
