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iBeta
Joined: Thu Feb 23, 2012 3:19 pm
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 Internal Hdd question. I have ordered the HD2 and am eagerly awaiting its arrival.
Am planning to get a Caviar Green 750 GB SATA-3 Harddisk, and hopefully get rid of the fan. I am assuming the fan is only necessary for hdd cooling, and not for any HD2 components.
I have USB3 on the pc, but am not sure if the HD2 needs to be self-powered when used as a client drive. The manual is less than helpful in these particular details, for example:
P64 Eng. Manual -
...This might be due to the player shutting down (due to low battery power) while reading or writing to your computer by the USB connection.
I guess they mean low battery in a laptop? The way it is written makes it seem like the HD2 has an internal battery.
So to sum up, can I just connect the usb 3 to the pc, without any external power to the HD2?
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| Thu Feb 23, 2012 11:37 pm |
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GregiBoy
Joined: Thu Jan 05, 2012 12:40 am
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Location: Brisbane, AU
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Re: Internal Hdd question. Yes you can use the drive directly to the PC but I'll make the following points from my own experience:-
USB 3 is overkill once connected to the player
750Gb is too small
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| Fri Feb 24, 2012 1:31 am |
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iBeta
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Re: Internal Hdd question. Ok, thanks for that... the last thing i need is JAPSU.  Why overkill? It makes a massive difference to transfer speeds, compared to usb2.
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Duivels
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Re: Internal Hdd question. The HD2 has no internal battery and must be powered for the internal hard drive to be used as a USB drive of your PC. If your PC has USB 3, you will benefit from the higher speed.
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| Fri Feb 24, 2012 10:20 pm |
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iBeta
Joined: Thu Feb 23, 2012 3:19 pm
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Re: Internal Hdd question. Right, an internal bat seemed too good...
Have just been reading that the caviar greens have an 'intellipark' feature, which by default parks the heads after (default) 8 sec inactivity. Anyone know how the HD2 would handle this?
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| Sat Feb 25, 2012 1:15 am |
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GregiBoy
Joined: Thu Jan 05, 2012 12:40 am
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Re: Internal Hdd question. Sure, you would get speed improvement when connected to your PC but nothing extra when connected to your player which is only USB2. iBeta wrote: Ok, thanks for that... the last thing i need is JAPSU. Why overkill? It makes a massive difference to transfer speeds, compared to usb2.
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