Just set up a half-filled 500 gb HDD with my Touch, it works great! A few glitches but the HDD is currently powered through the USB bus of the Touch. The HDD also has a 5V power inlet that once in use may make things run even smoother.
However, I noticed that as long as the Touch is connected to AC power, the HDD is constantly spinning. The whole idea of connecting the HDD was to not have a computer running for music listening, so the (albeit soft) continuous sound of the HDD is annoying. Also I'm worried of the HDD failing because of constantly spinning. Is there a way of stopping the HDD from spinning when the Touch is sleeping or playing radio? If not, I'm thinking of getting a SSD. However, these are usually USB powered and require more juice than the 500mA the Touch can deliver. Would a USB Y cable, with 2 USB plugs on one end, solve this problem? I would then connect the data USB plug to the Touch and the other one to a 5V power supply. Or would the Touch suffer from having 5V put on its USB port that way? I'm having some trouble expressing myself clearly, hope you can make something of it :) Cheers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Koelboy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=67811 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108643 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
