[G4] Assembling a USB Drive

[Alex]

On Tuesday, Apr 20, 2004, at 16:52 Canada/Eastern, John Erdman wrote:

> [...] I assume that like other USB devices the drive will be 
> completely powered via the USB link.

Not necessarily. Depends on the enclosure.

> [...] I haven't been able to find power requirements of the IBM 
> TravelStar drives. [...]

IBM's storage division has been sold to Hitachi. So you'll find the 
specs on their site

<http://www.hitachigst.com/>

Go to support and search for the specific drive model you have in mind.

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