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Jizzler · Jul 6, 2009, 01:02 PM

Nice. I've always liked cable-powered USB drives for ease of use and transporting.

My one grip is that it's 500GB. At ~30MB/s, that means hours of transferring. Bring on the powered eSATA! Makes me wonder why the specs for it didn't call for powered operation from the get-go. I believe we would be seeing a lot more drives using it.

If anything, it may have sparked a quicker USB 3.0 adoption.

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Jul 6, 2009, 01:02 PM	#2
Jizzler Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Geneva, FL, USA Posts: 3,010 (1.42/day) Thanks: 567 Thanked 606 Times in 487 Posts System Specs	Nice. I've always liked cable-powered USB drives for ease of use and transporting. My one grip is that it's 500GB. At ~30MB/s, that means hours of transferring. Bring on the powered eSATA! Makes me wonder why the specs for it didn't call for powered operation from the get-go. I believe we would be seeing a lot more drives using it. If anything, it may have sparked a quicker USB 3.0 adoption.