[ubuntu-uk] Recommend a two hard drive dock

Liam Proven lproven at gmail.com
Wed Nov 24 15:10:46 GMT 2010


On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Andy Braben <andybraben at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have an external hard disk with bootable ubuntu on it, and I can
> boot that and use it perfectly connected only via USB. There is no
> mains power that can be attached to it.

What size hard disk drive does it have in it? Not capacity, physical
drive size. I am betting it's 2½".

3½" hard disk drives draw too much power to run them off USB alone.

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