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Looking at getting a external hard drive for a laptop and was wondering is it best to get a ac powered one or a usb powered drive? Was thinking that the usb one would chew to much of the laptops battery
 
Well if you have a power source to plug the AC powered one in then surely you have power for the laptops battery? Personally i would get the USB powered one. No need to lug around a power brick and more cables.
How much data will you be putting on it?
 
mr.sniper said:
Looking at getting a external hard drive for a laptop and was wondering is it best to get a ac powered one or a usb powered drive? Was thinking that the usb one would chew to much of the laptops battery
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As far as I see it is price vs mobility.
If you want to use an external when you are on the go then usb. If you have your lappie pluged in 95% of the time then no worries having an AC powered external sitting on your desk.
I think its still the same, havent checked in awhile as I have more then enough storage but AC powered external R1 per gb, usb R2 per gb. Game atm has a 1tb AC for R799.
 
i use Iomega usb powered external harddrive and never had problems with it, mines 250 gb
 
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USB powered all the way....im freaking tired of lugging this ac power around with me.

anyone have some decent 500 gig usb powered offers i can look at ?
 
You are right. USB powered will chow laptop battery on the go, but that is the reason you get a USB powered one, because you are on the move and sometimes out of reach of an AC power source. AC powered devices tend to be for desktop drives i.e 3.5" drives which have faster seek times in general and is honestly only meant to augment your stationary storage needs at home or at the office.
 
Hi guys i'm looking for and external hard drive, usb powered, 2.5" or smaller (if you get smaller than that). Size between 750GB and 1TB.
Please point me in the right direction, brand price etc?

Ps i will use it for movies and music.
 
Media Junkie,

I think the biggest drive is a Western Digital Scorpio Blue 1TB.
The closest other manufacturer is Seagate with a 640GB and the rest of the manufacturers have 500GB.

So to meet your needs you have only one option.
 
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