Tony T wrote: > Ok, probably not the right place to ask this, but.... > I have a Pi4, and have attached a USB 3.0 hard drive that is powered by > the Pi > Now, all is working fine with 2.0 port, but if I plug the drive into the > 3.0 port it will disconnect (or not mount at all) > Im fine with using the Pi 2.0 port, but what reason would cause the 3.0 > port to disconnect? > Does the 3.0 port draw more power? Is it a bad chip in the drive? (It is > a cheap USB drive)
I don't know if it's directly relevant or not, but several months back I set up a FreeNAS server on an old(ish) Dell. I have an old SSD in a USB3 enclosure that I connected to a USB3 port. It would work fine for a while, then I'd get a notification that it had disconnected. Sometimes it would work for days, sometimes for hours, sometimes only for minutes. Connecting it to a USB2 port never gave me any grief at all. Eventually I got a large traditional (i.e., not SSD) USB3 hard drive with an external power supply and connected that to a USB3 port. It's never given me a moment's trouble and in fact is my primary music drive, feeding multiple LMS servers and hardware/software players all over the house. So I don't know if Something Bad happens when you try to power an external drive via USB3 that isn't an issue with USB2, but for now that's my best guess. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111787
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