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Mazoku
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Re: Evil conversion(for the lack for better term)

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Originally Posted by kyuven View Post
Separate power lead?
I think he means if you're going to get an external device, get something with a USB connector for data, and a separate power cable/lead for mains power, not something that only has a USB connector for both data and power. It's probably pushing it trying to run a full size drive off USB power, though I thought they only tried that with the small laptop hard drives.

Last edited by Mazoku; 05-23-2013 at 02:35 PM.
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