Is this drive fully portable, or does it need a power cord?
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Alex, you asked "Is this drive fully portable, or does it need a power cord?" This external drive is fully portable and needs no external power source. You have one USB to USB connection to your PC or laptop, etcetera, which when connected is assigned a driver by Windows and power is supplied by that one connection in addition to communicating with your PC as an external drive.
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Connect is totally portable. It come with a USB cord to connect to your computer.
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It has and requires an external power supply. I purchased this particular external drive because I needed an external drive that had its own power supply to get files off of an old laptop computer that only had USB 1.0 ports. USB 1.0 ports are old technology do not provide enough power to an external drive. It was by far the easiest way way to recover and save those files to use this self-powered external drive. There were other ways, but this was a simple solution for me. Moral of the story is that a separate power supply is not always a detriment.
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Though there is no internal drive, I used an external drive to transfer data back and forth with no issue. I made a conscious choose choice for lightweight portability over a drive, since I already had an external drive.
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It has a standard power cord head. it has one usb and one e-sata input/put each.
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This drive is USB powered - it actually features dual USB connections in case one is underpowered on your computer. There may also be an option to use a separate power supply but I have not tried that.
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There is no power switch on the 3 TB drive. The disk will, however, spin down when the host machine is off.
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There is a AC Adapter included, and since this is built for a 3.5 drive, will require a power adapter, though the nice thing is that it's included.
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I believe the drive is powered by legacy usb 2.0 standard interface. The other end of the connector is usb 3.0 peripheral interface.
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Yes, This is not a portable hard drive, so it does require ac. I have been using this product for the last 6 months, and I have no problems with it.
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Not exactly sure about your question. EVERY drive will need both a power cable and a data cable.
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None. You can buy an external USB drive or share a drive from another computer. We use our portable for that purpose.
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No, unfortunately it's not. Yet, it's still quite portable... The power cord can be removed from the back, so it's easy to just pack up and take with (provided you have electricity).
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I have the similar My Book Premium Edition 500GB and it does have a separate power cord. All of the larger external drives I've looked at have that. I like this hard drive a lot. I've had it about a year and it has been very reliable.
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Marginal USB power is ALWAYS a risk with drives that run off USB power. I use my portables to hold maintenance and diagnostic tools. They get plugged into different machines every week, and you never know how much power those machines will be supplying. Some machines (especially laptops) just don't put out the power required to run many drives, and some drives suck down more power than others. When you hear the metronome noise, that's an indication that there isn't enough power. Worse, I have had portable disks work fine for a few weeks or months and then start the metronome noise. When I see that a drive "doesn't need a power cable" I always look for whether it comes with a power jack ANYWAY. That way, you can always add wall power if you're having problems. The best deal of all (as far as reliability) are drives like Other World Computing's, that "don't need a power cord" but come with a power jack AND a power adapter for the same price. That way you can run it off a marginal laptop, an unpowered hub, or whatever you need to.
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Looking at the thing right now. Has an adapter that must be plugged into the wall. It is a divided adapter, meaning it is a power plug then 5 feet of cord then a small adapter and then about 3 feet of cord with a power piece to plug into the drive. Just be warned that this device only lasted me a few years before the drive started to fail.
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Unless the external drive is portable, and advertised as such, you can expect a larger drive, (anything larger than 500 GB or 1 TB) to have an AC adapter. This is just common knowledge. If it isn't compact and advertised as portable, it will require AC power.
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So this drive doesn't come with any cables. You shouldn't need them if you are using with a Laptop, but for desktop, you would need cables, but you can find them pretty cheap anywhere.