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Hi all im wondering if anyone can help me with something

i am planning to buy an internal 2.5" hdd to put in a usb powered encloser i just purchased.

Will the TV`s with usb slots be able to power this?

Also if they can which speed of drive can they power? as i have seen 5400rpm and 7200rpm 2.5" drives

and is there a limit the TV can pick up Gb wise?

Thanks in advance for any help given.
 
Braka said:
Hi all im wondering if anyone can help me with something

i am planning to buy an internal 2.5" hdd to put in a usb powered encloser i just purchased.

Will the TV`s with usb slots be able to power this?
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It should do - most external 2.5" HDD enclosures come with a twin USB connector (the second plug being power-only), either in the form of two separate cables or a Y-cable. In the event of a single USB port being unable to supply enough juice via the normal combined data/power cable, you can plug the second connector into another port to supply additional power (the practicality of this will depend on the number and layout of your TV's USB ports, although it's not normally a problem).

Braka said:
Also if they can which speed of drive can they power? as i have seen 5400rpm and 7200rpm 2.5" drives
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Doesn't make any difference, although 7200rpm drives will probably draw a little more power.

Braka said:
and is there a limit the TV can pick up Gb wise?
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Depends on the TV and the HDD's filesystem - you'll need to format the drive as NTFS if you want to use files over 4GB, which would include a lot of high-bitrate HD content, so check your TV's handbook to make sure NTFS is supported.
 
I have a USB port on my Philips LED and it will only recongise a USB-flash stick in the port, the old laptop drive that I have in an enclosure won't work, light goes green but no drive found for the TV. The same goes for the PS3.

Laptops and desktops identify it fine, but they also do install drivers for it under win7/vista so I think that could be the bigger problem.

Would suggest to just try it out somehow without making a huge investment blindly. No news on google either about your model?
 
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thanks for the replys guys , well i am more doing research and slowly buying what im planning on doing atm

looking at getting this TV LG 32LK450U

CaptainCrash this model only shows 1 usb

this is the enclosure i hv bought http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-011-LA&groupid=1657&catid=1660&subcat=1670

i have not opened it yet as i am trying to buy a cheapish drive from the MM 1st so unsure if it has 1 or 2 usb leads as mentioned above

insejn what file format was ur laptop drive in the enclosure set at? as CaptainCrash has mentioned it to be set to NTFS format
 
I have 3 types of standalone (non-powered) USB drives. I also have a Hard drive "stand" which accecpts 2.5 and 3.5 drives and is powered.

My TV only reads one of the standalone drives (and that is formatted as Fat32) - and I have tried everytype of FAT and NTFS Hard drive in the hard drive stand.

It's also a bit temperamental with the cable I use for the drive - most work - but when I use cheap USB cables - or specific types - the TV will not piick it up for some reason.

It does however read loads of types of USB stick.

But as was said above - every TV is different these days, why don;t you email the manufacturer to see what it needs specifically.
 
It's one thing to get the TV to recognise whatever type/speed/capacity HDD you connect but if you're planning on playing TV shows, films or whatever from the HDD then you need to ensure that the TV has the capability of playing the file formats that the media is encoded in.
 
insejn said:
I have a USB port on my Philips LED and it will only recongise a USB-flash stick in the port, the old laptop drive that I have in an enclosure won't work, light goes green but no drive found for the TV. The same goes for the PS3.

Laptops and desktops identify it fine, but they also do install drivers for it under win7/vista so I think that could be the bigger problem.
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If you format the HDD in FAT32 your PS3 will recognise it, maybe the TV too.
NTFS won't work on the PS3 so no HD files over 4GB can be used.
 
Surveyor said:
It's one thing to get the TV to recognise whatever type/speed/capacity HDD you connect but if you're planning on playing TV shows, films or whatever from the HDD then you need to ensure that the TV has the capability of playing the file formats that the media is encoded in.
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i have read some reviews and im pritty sure it plays mkv the model i have said above so anything pre that should work without a problem :) i hope :D

i was in tesco earlier today and after seeing the tv ontop of the 37 and 42" versions of itself it looks tiny :(
 
my LG 42PQ6000 works fine with both powered and portable external HDs used up to 500gb ones borh formated to NTFS, and plays back divx, plays most files no problem apart from mvk.
 
VEry true regarding the whole format thing. FAT32 is the way forward. I have a buffalo 500GB Portable Hard drive which i plug into my brother Toshiba LCD 32". not recognized when in NTFS format, but working fine when formatted to FAT32.

Also, I couldn't get it to work off one USB, So I used a mains powered hub just to help power it up :)
 
Braka said:
looking at getting this TV LG 32LK450U

CaptainCrash this model only shows 1 usb
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For what it's worth, I have an LG 42LK450U, and it's fine with NTFS-formatted drives, and a 2.5" external HDD works OK with just the one connector. It's a bit picky about codecs though - no problem with the .mkv container format, or with AVC video (h.264), but it doesn't like DTS audio, although AC-3 is OK. I don't really have much use for the inbuilt player as I have a PC connected, but out of interest the Samsung I had previously played back just about everything I threw at it.

If you do have problems, you could always just get a dedicated media player, they're pretty cheap these days, or go the whole hog and build yourself a nice HTPC. :)
 
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