USB, Toshiba

[Kevin Cozens]

>> I was quite amazed when I discovered the very small, external, 500GB
>> hard drive that my dad had asked me to get for him is fully powered
>> from the USB port only. It doesn't need any external power.

Duncan MacGregor wrote:
> Then you have been lucky. USB devices that are starved for power do not
> tell you so. They just fail to work properly.

I didn't get "lucky". The device is designed to use the USB port for all its 
power requirements. There is no external power adapter provided and no means 
to provide any other form of power to the external hard drive.

The "lucky" part is not having to figure out where a wall wart for an 
external drive would be plugged in as one wasn't needed.
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