[ubuntu-uk] Recommend a two hard drive dock

Andy Braben andybraben at gmail.com
Wed Nov 24 15:20:10 GMT 2010


On 24 November 2010 15:10, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> --

Yes it is 2.5".

Regards,
Andy.



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