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InvisibleChinChiller
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1 TB Hardrive Help using with USB port
    #18916048 - 10/01/13 12:48 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

I moved recently and couldn't bring my whole tower with me  :sad:


So I moved all the data fron the C drive onto my 1tb Sata D drive and brought it with me...I just recently bought this adapter

Looking at the price(3.99:yesnod:) and not noticing how small it is I ordered it...:shrug:

Anyways Im trying to get the harddrive to work and I tried using one of those double usb to mini usb cords to no avail.:kingcrankey:
Is there any cord I can buy to give this harddrive some more power?
And it is true that NTFS is read only on Mac right?


Thank you for all your help in advance :happyweed:


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Invisiblemycomyst
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Re: 1 TB Hardrive Help using with USB port [Re: ChinChiller]
    #18916966 - 10/01/13 04:01 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

from the pic it looks like it is made for a 2.5" drive. No external power needed for those. Your 1 tb dive is from a tower, right? 3.5"? If that is the case, it needs an external power supply for the hard drive to work.


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Re: 1 TB Hardrive Help using with USB port [Re: ChinChiller]
    #18919484 - 10/02/13 02:39 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

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Errolscool said:
Is there any cord I can buy to give this harddrive some more power?



You'll probably have to supply power separately to the hard drive anyway; it looks like the adapter you have only converts SATA to USB without actually using the power section of the SATA plug. You can use a separate computer power supply, and I'm sure there will be nifty small power supplies too specifically for this purpose, which might be a tad expensive it's just for incidental use.

But can you hear/feel the disk spinning up if you connect it to the (powered) adapter? If not, then power is certainly your problem. If it does spin up, something else is the matter.

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And it is true that NTFS is read only on Mac right?



No; NTFS is originally a Windows concept, but it can be read and written by Linux and probably by MacOS too, although I vaguely recall that Mac-NTFS compatibility is kind of awkward (btw, writing to NTFS from Linux sometimes goes wrong too, in my experience, with Windows not recognizing the changes made to the disk). If you came from Windows and you're connecting this disk to another Windows machine (which statistically is the most likely :wink:) then the NTFS partition will probably not be the problem.


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Re: 1 TB Hardrive Help using with USB port [Re: koraks]
    #18920154 - 10/02/13 09:40 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

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koraks said:
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Errolscool said:
Is there any cord I can buy to give this harddrive some more power?



You'll probably have to supply power separately to the hard drive anyway; it looks like the adapter you have only converts SATA to USB without actually using the power section of the SATA plug.




From what I can see, it is set up to power the drives it's designed for (2.5" laptop sized hard drives.) The connector occupies the power port of the drive, so supplying power from somewhere else would be a challenge. Barring destructive means like soldering or hacking the thing up with a dremel, a sata data extension cable would solve the problem of the blocked power port.



The most straightforward solution might be to buy an enclosure actually designed for desktop drives though. The cheapest ones here are something like $20.

IIRC NTFS may indeed be read-only on Macs, at least without third party software. I remember encountering some hassles in this regard, but not all the details.


Edited by psi (10/02/13 09:46 AM)


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Invisiblemycomyst
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Re: 1 TB Hardrive Help using with USB port [Re: psi]
    #18922719 - 10/02/13 06:07 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

you can power your drive from an atx power supply, use the sata power connector, or if it doesn't have one use a 4 pin molex to sata adapter. then connect up a sata data cable from the drive to an open sata port on the mb. should work....


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Re: 1 TB Hardrive Help using with USB port [Re: ChinChiller]
    #18923095 - 10/02/13 07:48 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

OOTB OS X can only read NTFS, there's no write support without a third party kext.

http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/


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