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Originally Posted by Cman333
Well I read about it on NCIX. Then googled it, and found that it's a common problem in the exisiting 1TB and 1.5TB model Baracuda series. I'm not too tech savvy so I don't want to have to swap HDD all the time and/or upgrade firmware constantly.
http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/cr...p?DocId=207931
Apparently the Caviar Black series from WD is one of the most reliable 1TB HDD's out there, and for $20 more I'd rather skip the possible frustrations down the road. I've never had any issues with any hard drives ever before. Currently have a Samsung, WD and a Seagate. But all of them are <750GB.
So this with this Vantec enclosure I won't have to plug it in to a 120V wall outlet? Usb 2.0 can power the HDD+enclsoure? I just saw the pic with the wall plug and thought "oh great another plug". I have too much shit by my comp and don't want to go and buy a 3rd surge protector cuz the existing two are full lol. Too much clutter already.
Sorry for all the questions guys. Just like to be thorough and actually try and learn how to do this properly.   |
All 3.5" hard drives will require a wall outlet/AC power pack because of their power requirements. I have a 3.5" Acomdata enclosure that has both USB and firewire and both connection methods require that I plug in the AC adapter.
The 2.5" ones will depend on which ones you get. I have a Seagate Free Agent Pro drive and it only requires one USB plug. I also have a Vantec CX and that requires 2. I think it really depends on what drive they throw in there. USB specs say that it can only spit out 5V at 500mA. If you drive's peak power requirements call for more than 500mA then you're going to end up not having enough juice to power the drive.
As for speed requirements, the bottleneck will be the USB bus. Even though it claims 480mb/s, it gets nowhere near that due to other devices on the USB bus using the bandwidth. Even the slowest of hard drives should be able to keep up with the maximum USB bus speed.