Hello A!

Wednesday January 09 2019 08:12, you wrote to Fred Smith:

 > Fred Smith wrote:
 >> On 2019-01-08, A  Dumas wrote:
 >>> Simply get any 2.5" portable disk. It won't need external power.
 >>> Make sure you use the official RPi power adapter for the Pi,
 >>> though.
 >>
 >> Even then I'd be using an externally, separately powered disk. The
 >> pi simply does not have the grunt to run "any 2.5" portable disk"
 >> reliably. You are asking for all sorts of obscure problems that
 >> will ruin your day.

 > All modern 2.5" portable disks say they require no external power,
 > that means they adhere to the common denominator usb2 standard of 5 V
 > and max. 500 mA. The Pi does too, it can even go to 1 A with the right
 > setting in /boot/config.txt. So, any 2.5" portable disk will do. I
 > have 3 different ones and they all work fine without the 1 A setting.

 > ... There *might* be 2.5" disks who draw more than 1 A peak current at
 > startup. Those are almost certainly not disks you can buy in the shops
 > today.

I have decided touse a laptop ps that gives 19v at 3.43w and hopefully can 
even use it to
power the Pi as well - have to look when the kit arrives from Singapore in 10 
- 20 days.

The drive is one of a few spare 1 Tb among many others so I do wish to make 
use of one or
more and not use a USB external which I use for back ups only.



Vince

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