[olug] OT: Cool and Crappy at the same time

[Chad Homan]

Yeah. I like the size of the USB device.   But it was the vague power
requirements that got me.  I must dig in deeper
On Oct 27, 2010 12:40 AM, "Will Langford" <unfies at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:58 PM, Chad Homan <choman at gmail.com> wrote:
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http://www.getusb.info/dirty-little-secret-of-32gb-flash-drives/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GetUSBinfo+%28USB+Powered+Gadgets+and+more..%29
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>> Chad, CISSP
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>
> Article seems... rather... moot.
>
> It doesn't say how much power draw the thing needs or anything.
>
> Verbatim's north american site doesn't mention it, and the european site
> doesn't list power draw specs.
>
> I wonder if any / all high capacity USB flash drives have a larger power
> draw ? Or does this thing have regular power draw and someone tried to use
> it with an unpowered hub that already had 2 other devices connected to it
?
> or or or or ?
>
> Sigh.
>
> -Will
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