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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
The cables required two USB ports? I don't recall seeing drives attached via USB that had that requirement. One issue I have seen attempting to attach external drives is whether the device provides sufficient power to the external drive through the USB port. I've had cases where it didn't, and if I didn't plug the drive into a powered hub, it would appear on the host device and then disappear because the device couldn't power the drive.
Dennis
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Hi, yes, it was specifically for powering the drive. And I have also had problems with multiple attached drives where attaching a new one causes an old one (or two) to disconnect.
The cable looked something like this:
https://www.neweggbusiness.com/Produ...E&gclsrc=aw.ds
And it was quite some time ago....they might have been 500MB drives. The experience was bad enough that I never wanted to risk buying another Toshiba drive. And I had been partial to Toshiba because I had such good luck with Toshiba laptops (when I could find them).
I recently bought another powered HUB because my old one is USB 2. My laptop (a Windows 7 laptop that I pray lives a good long time) only has one USB 3 port. I'm tired of losing the speed benefits of the USB3 port when doing backups of the drives.