On Sat, 2025-09-20 at 16:54 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > This model requires 2 host USB ports. The 500mA 5V supply > of a single USB-2 port is insufficient.
When it comes to external USB drive enclosures for a desktop PC, I favour ones that come with their own power supply. I'd leave USB- powered ones for battery-powered portable computing. Having said that, I did have *one* with an incredibly noisy power supply, it put hash out over the ground wire in my mains and totally killed the ADSL signal. Always, every time, without any exceptions. You just had to plug it into something that was grounded, anywhere in the house, the equipment didn't even need to be running. ADSL died within seconds, and could never recover. Powering things from USB often has the problem of being insufficiently powered, even if powered from two sockets. Your computer has a power limit for its USB sockets, and it's shared between ones on the same hosting circuit. And, you use two USB sockets for one object. Some of those Y-leads are badly designed, too. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
