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Speed of my USB?
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<blockquote data-quote="hughvane" data-source="post: 762385" data-attributes="member: 56231"><p>Welcome to the club! For the very same reason I bought an Ice brand (Welland) combo FW/USB enclosure on TradeMe, and a Seagate 250 Gb drive from an online tech store in Akld. The Ice works fine on USB2, but not on firewire, as mentioned in my last post.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Okay, some serious advice about portable USB (USB-pwrd) drives with Mac. Perhaps 90% of users complain about the drives "not being recognised", or otherwise not functioning properly. Reason? Lack of USB power from the ports on the Mac. Some portable USB drives require both ports on a Mac to be utilised through a USB splitter cable.</p><p></p><p>Solution? A mains-pwrd hub, which <span style="font-size: 9px">(just about)</span> defeats the purpose of a portable drive. There is a Cyberpower battery-pwrd hub available, cost about NZ$35 (I have and use one). I can get one into NZ freight-free 4u, but then courier cost 2u within NZ would be about $10-$15 (I guess). Let me know if that could become part of your planning.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hughvane, post: 762385, member: 56231"] Welcome to the club! For the very same reason I bought an Ice brand (Welland) combo FW/USB enclosure on TradeMe, and a Seagate 250 Gb drive from an online tech store in Akld. The Ice works fine on USB2, but not on firewire, as mentioned in my last post. Okay, some serious advice about portable USB (USB-pwrd) drives with Mac. Perhaps 90% of users complain about the drives "not being recognised", or otherwise not functioning properly. Reason? Lack of USB power from the ports on the Mac. Some portable USB drives require both ports on a Mac to be utilised through a USB splitter cable. Solution? A mains-pwrd hub, which [SIZE="1"](just about)[/SIZE] defeats the purpose of a portable drive. There is a Cyberpower battery-pwrd hub available, cost about NZ$35 (I have and use one). I can get one into NZ freight-free 4u, but then courier cost 2u within NZ would be about $10-$15 (I guess). Let me know if that could become part of your planning. [/QUOTE]
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