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13th October 2009, 10:52 PM
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500 gb 2.5" sata
I have a few Enclosures for 2.5"/Laptop SATA drives. I have used them with 160 GB drives.
I want a 500 GB USB drive that does not need external power, so I am thinking of getting a 500 GB SATA drive and putting it in my enclosure.
I am unsure if this will work. Would 500 GB SATA drives use a different standard the the 160 GB drive I used that would not be compatible with these enclosures, or should they still work?
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13th October 2009, 10:59 PM
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If your taking an SATA drive out and putting an SATA drive in you should be good. Even if the 160GB is SATA 150 and the 500GB is SATA 300 it should still work just at the slower speed.
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13th October 2009, 11:01 PM
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Theoretically, I guess it would work. But I'm not too personally keen on the idea of using the USB's juice to spin up a drive. YMMV.
Thought I read somewhere that for enclosures sans an independent power supply, 1394 may be better than USB.
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13th October 2009, 11:13 PM
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I only have USB. Most of the drives I have spin up, sometimes they don't if I use a "bad cable"
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I am an Ubuntu user who's starting to try another distro, more details
HP G50 Laptop/3 GB RAM.2.0 GHz Core2 Duo -- Ubuntu 9.04/Vista Dualboot
IBM 300 PL/1 GB RAM/667 MHz Pentium III -- Removable Hard Drive tray with Server 2003, Win 98, Win XP (Drive Corrupted), Ubuntu 7.10, Ubuntu 6.10 (Corrupted)
DOS6/Win 3.1, Windows NT 4, Windows 95/98,ME, Windows 2000 (Server and Pro), Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7,Ubuntu 6.06-Ubuntu 9.04, Kubuntu 6.10, Kubuntu 7.04
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13th October 2009, 11:30 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by tjvanwyk
Theoretically, I guess it would work. But I'm not too personally keen on the idea of using the USB's juice to spin up a drive. YMMV.
Thought I read somewhere that for enclosures sans an independent power supply, 1394 may be better than USB.
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I have a 500gb Maxtor sitting here on my desk and it is rated at 0.52 amps on the 12 volt rail and 0.72 amps on the 5 volt rail. Startup is probably the only time the cable really would be an issue IMHO.
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13th October 2009, 11:58 PM
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IMHO?
When I use "bad cables" the drive sounds like it's gonna spin up, then stops, then sounds like that again, I'm not too sure if that's good for the drive...
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I am an Ubuntu user who's starting to try another distro, more details
HP G50 Laptop/3 GB RAM.2.0 GHz Core2 Duo -- Ubuntu 9.04/Vista Dualboot
IBM 300 PL/1 GB RAM/667 MHz Pentium III -- Removable Hard Drive tray with Server 2003, Win 98, Win XP (Drive Corrupted), Ubuntu 7.10, Ubuntu 6.10 (Corrupted)
DOS6/Win 3.1, Windows NT 4, Windows 95/98,ME, Windows 2000 (Server and Pro), Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7,Ubuntu 6.06-Ubuntu 9.04, Kubuntu 6.10, Kubuntu 7.04
Last edited by mpg187; 14th October 2009 at 06:11 AM.
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14th October 2009, 12:00 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mpg187
IMHO?
When I use "bad cables" the drive sounds like it's gonna spin up, then stops, then sounds like that again, I'm not too sure if that's good for the drive...
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IMHO In My Humble Opinion
Startup of the motor is probably well over an amp, what you are experiencing with a bad cable is low voltage to the motor not allowing it to start to spin and your right it isn't good for it.
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