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External Hard Drives and USB power 2017-09-13 08:38:40 Post No. 381376
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External Hard Drives and USB power Anonymous 2017-09-13 08:38:40 Post No. 381376 [Report]
I have a USB 3.0 Toshiba External 1TB hard-drive. It works fine on one computer and not hardly at all on another that I have used it on in the past.

>I went to back up some data off an older computer I've been needing to back up. I've used this hard drive on it before. Today after I started transferring data it start Chirping. Doesn't matter if it's plugged directly into the motherboard. Chirps even when trying to play a video file off the EX-HD.

>Dragged it over to my big Desktop which I don't use much except for data backup and diagnostic work. Plugged it in. Works fine. Hasn't chirped once. Not knowing if this HD is failing or not. It's Toshiba so I don't trust them much. I started dumping what I did have on this drive that I thought was important. I dumped about 94GB and have had zero issues so far.

>Is this Drive Failing? Is it possible that the USB ports on the first desktop are just under-powering the External? It is a USB only drive. The data and power are though one USB port. It certainly was acting like it was losing power on the first desktop.

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Anonymous 2017-09-14 06:15:34 Post No.381647
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Anonymous 2017-09-14 06:15:34 Post No.381647 [Report]
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>Is it possible that the USB ports on the first desktop are just under-powering the External?

very likely. even usb ports on the front of my machine don't charge my phone at half the rate of the ports on the back.

kind of a hassle, but if you can get hold of one of those multi-port USB hubs that has a power supply, that might help.
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