The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Power Supply and HDD

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Gershom, Apr 22, 2006.

  1. Gershom

    Gershom Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    29
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Hi, I'm planning to purchase the M9 Mini Pod Hard Drive Enclosure and the Western Digital Caviar 320GB. My question is, would the firewire 400 on the M9 Mini Pod be enough to run the 3.5" hard drive without the need for an external supply and just run on the laptop's power alone? Since i know that USB 2.0 does not provide enough power for a 3.5", i'm not too sure on firewires. If the firewire 400 isn't enough would the firewire 800 be enough?

    Thanks
     
    Gershom, Apr 22, 2006
    #1