USB powered 2TB external drive

dubcat · 3 Apr 2011 at 20:51

I was wondering if anyone can recommend a USB powered 2TB external hard drive? Speed is not a massive issue as I will just be using it for apple timemachine. I would prefer to have USB power as I am running out of power sockets in my home office.
thanks,
Dub

Destination · 3 Apr 2011 at 20:57

Thought large drives needed too much power to run off the USB.

Tomsk · 3 Apr 2011 at 21:04

You can get 1TB portable drives. I've not seen anything bigger.

BTW I have upto 24 items powered off 2 wall sockets.

rpstewart · 3 Apr 2011 at 22:18

Tomsk said:
You can get 1TB portable drives. I've not seen anything bigger.

USB power means a 2.5" HDD - 1Tb is as big as they come at the moment.

mikeyholt · 4 Apr 2011 at 21:34

Tomsk said:
I have upto 24 items powered off 2 wall sockets.

I hope you have a good house insurance plan haha, wouldn't be fun if a fire broke out!

manbearpig · 4 Apr 2011 at 21:37

Tomsk said:
BTW I have upto 24 items powered off 2 wall sockets.

I thought I had a lot, having 12 things plugged into 2 sockets, including 2 computers!

panyan · 4 Apr 2011 at 21:47

rpstewart said:
USB power means a 2.5" HDD - 1Tb is as big as they come at the moment.

+1 and they are usually hideously slow

sypher365 · 5 Apr 2011 at 15:39

panyan said:
+1 and they are usually hideously slow

Yeah only 1Tb atm but you could get USB3 one that should be a little quicker such as http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-103-SA&groupid=1657&catid=1659&subcat=1902

Alternativly get a NAS which can sit in another room not taking up any power sockets?

SparkyG · 5 Apr 2011 at 17:54

Is there not a 1.5TB 2.5" available now... I am sure I saw one advetised somewhere :cool:

Oma-Lan-DP · 5 Apr 2011 at 22:01

manbearpig said:
I thought I had a lot, having 12 things plugged into 2 sockets, including 2 computers!

Have 8 double sockets & 3 of those 4 socket extensions, only 1 socket left empty!!

Have a master switch to turn all off at night though, just in case.

Tomsk · 5 Apr 2011 at 22:47

If I switch everything on at once, the power on surge is less than 1000W. Once it's all on, the typical power draw is less than 500W. However I don't usually have everything on and the power draw is ~300W.

Nightglow · 5 Apr 2011 at 22:56

I looked for a large 1TB or ideally larger usb drive, but decided on a Akasa USB 3.0 Duo Dock with a Samung F4 2TB instead, as it came out cheaper.