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Originally Posted by FizzyWater
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.
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The last time I had a problem like that was on my old 32bit desktop. I used to build systems from components, but I've been cured of that bad habit.
The desktop had a motherboard failure, and I got an emergency replacement from a local retailer. The new mobo had a limit of four IDE drives. I had a couple of IDE cards providing additional IDE connectors that I had used successfully (and at one point, had
ten hard drives in the tower case with the old mobo.)
They worked when the machine was first booted up, but at some point, drives attached via the IDE cards instead of motherboard IDE ports would disappear from the system. I dual booted WinXP and Ubuntu Linux. I had the drive Ubuntu was installed on disappear while I was
booted into Ubuntu. Ubuntu tries to do everything in RAM, so I didn't know the drive it was on had gone walkabout until updates to Ubuntu and applications failed to install because the file system they were being written to was no longer there.
I could only imagine what would have happened had it been the Windows drive when I was booted into XP...
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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).
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I wouldn't have blamed the drive for those problems. They likely would have behaved fine elsewhere.
And I haven't Looked Stuff Up lately, but I believe current drives require less power. I still have old IDE drives in large form factors in a parts drawer. The newer 3.5" and 2.5" SATA drives are much smaller and simply need less power to operate.
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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.
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That's what hubs are for, and I'd d the same.
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Dennis